General election 2019: The voting system explained - BBC News

Its unbelievable to me how voters in tbis country have to be explained how our voting system works. Yet I, as a 17 year old, know the system inside out and am not able to vote in this election. Votes at 16 could not be a more obvious solution!

Imagine the following situation: There are 10 candidates in constituency A. Each receives 10% of the votes, except one who receives 10% + 1 vote. First past the post system means that this candidate is elected despite having only 10% (+1 vote) support in the constituency. All the other votes are DISREGARDED. ... This means that theoretically - should this happen in every one of the 650 constituencies - a single party could acquire 100% seats with mere 10% of the votes with 90% of the votes being disregarded altogether. What an insane unrepresentative system.

The Party with the Most Seat WIN

They were making a fool of us 17.4 million then, but the time has come that even these turkeys won’t be able to prevent Christmas!...
The Remoaners below and the Remoaning media sound really frustrated, so Farage must have done something right...

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Ripped off from politics unboringed but they made it boring

This is video is only intended for democratic countries only... they are just using UK as a example..as if it were a democracy, but...in reality UK is just a glorified dictatorship that pretends to be a democracy. Democracy is just apart of UK's history books (until history to is removed eventually then no one will ever know what democracy ever was) don't let this video confuse you.# beauracy endgame

If anyone here HASN'T watched the CGP Grey videos on why First Past the Post is just the worst, I highly recommend it.

In the Netherlands, we just vote for a candidate of a party, from a list of candidates for each party.
All the votes are counted and our seats of parliament are distributed accordingly. Crazy system, right?

The gutter bbc... ''WHERE TRUTH AND INTEGRITY GO TO DIE''

Vote for no one

First of all. Lora Jones is a cutie. Second. 650 constituencies?? Wow!

The Prime Minister isn't necessarily the party leader with the most amount of seats. Rather the PM is the leader who can maintain the confidence of the house.

Great video👍

How it all works, well they all pretend to oppose each other, but they are all on the gravy train with first class tickets and you and your family aren't, they live off of your taxes and whatever u vote for u get a load of arses shitting on you from a great height and u just vote for a different arse to crap on you, so keep paying your taxes and pray u don't fall by the wayside,

We have PR in Ireland but you are able to vote down the list of candidates in order preference. Also constituencies have more than one TD (MP). Some of 5! It does lead to a very democratic outcome and usually coalition governments.

The system is pretty simple:
1. Turn up.
2. Put cross next to SNP.
3. Watch as English vote against their own interests again for a Tory gov or brexit slanted party.
4. The end of the UK

Yep. Just as busted of a voting system as usual.

Please can we get rid of first past the post already?

This is a good video to show children. Does anyone know where I can find the video about the role of the prime minister that she mentions at the end? Thanks.

What difference does it make? If its not what the establishment want it doesn't matter who the people vote for. Haven't we seen enough examples of this already. Democracy is dead in the UK and for any other country that wants to leave the EU!

Postal vote cheating lost Brexit Party seats. Ban it

As a British Citizen who has voted in our elections I can prove that the First Past the Post System is flawed because yes you can vote for your favourite candidate in your district/constituency however when you look at the results the winning candidates doesn’t actually win the majority vote because if you add all the opposition candidates votes together and compare it to the winners then they haven’t actually won the majority of their constituency meaning the elections system is flawed.

I also understand people have there own opinions and I will respect that as I am not out right hating our elections just pointing out a flaw in the system.

If you live in a marginal seat your vote effectively counts less than in a safe seat

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We don't like fptp

It’s a really unfair system... only labour and conservatives say it isn’t because they benefit from it. D’ Hondt and approval are better systems.

It's doesn't

Rigged.

This system is undemocratic. Also they should implement a push-button voting system rather than aye/nay system and add more benches so all MPs can sit here

Conservatives 💪

GENERAL ELECTION DATES: IN THE UK, A GENERAL ELECTION HAS TO TAKE PLACE AT LEAST EVERY FIVE YEARS, SO ONCE THE PARTY IS IN THE OFFICE, THEY DON'T TEND TO BUDGE UNTIL THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO. IN BRITAIN, ONLY 40 PERCENT OF VOTERS CAN BE BOTHERED TO GET OUT OF BED AND MAKE THEIR MARK.

sometimes their self more expensive then grass

-:and it elections it alone

Not voting, there is no choice among crooks

I vote for God

Not voting, there is no choice among crooks

it is better and fairer if Britain's voting system is changed to one of proportional representation as it would allow smaller political parties to grow.

God we need one now Tory's are destroying this country

In other words, the first past the post system is quite undemocratic.

I prefer the system a lot of other European countries use. They just look at the percentage a party got in an election and translate that percentage into seats.

What you’re really voting for is a puppet the super elites can use to distract you from what’s really happening and making it seem like you have a choice

With this system, it’s going to take a long time before we see a Prime Minister from the Plaid Cymru party.

Democracy is hypocrisy and corruption packaged as something good always the same outcome more lies and corruption .

Ça y est nous y est

imagine if we had a genuinely democratically functional system