British Voters in Next Month’s House of Commons Election Will Have an Average of 6 Candidates on Ballot

The British House of Commons election of May 7, 2015 will have 3,963 candidates in the 650 districts, for an average of 6.1 candidates per race. See the wikipedia article about the May 2015 election here.

By comparison, the U.S. House of Representatives election of November 2014 gave the average voter 2.5 candidates to choose from. Over half the U.S. House districts had no one on the ballot except Republicans and Democrats. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.


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British Voters in Next Month’s House of Commons Election Will Have an Average of 6 Candidates on Ballot — 2 Comments

  1. Hope for minority rule CHAOS in the 650 gerrymander districts in the UK election.

    i.e. TOTAL pressure to have P.R. for starters.

    i.e. a P.R. election by Nov 2015

    Party Seats = Party Votes x Total Seats / Total Votes

    Difficult ONLY for the EVIL top robot party hacks in the Cons and Labour gangster parties.

  2. So much choice. How nice that would be here?

    Then the Reps and Dems would actually have to talk about solutions rather than spending 96% of their advertising trying to tear down the other side with negative advertising.

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