If we had proportional representation then it would be different

But we don't. First past the post means they could get 20% of the national vote and still get no seats whatsoever. Very hard to translate popular vote in to seats.

Posted By: norway on May 3rd 2013 at 16:31:16

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how many seats will ukip get at the next general election (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, May 3, 16:24:06
- 2 in the barclay (General Chat) - strap_on sally, May 3, 16:40:43
  - snakepit surely? (n/m) (General Chat) - Mecagoenti, May 3, 16:41:40
    - nope (n/m) (General Chat) - strap_on sally, May 3, 16:42:56
      - shame.. would be good to group all the idiots together (n/m) (General Chat) - Mecagoenti, May 3, 16:45:01
        
        "Cough" (General Chat) - strap_on sally, May 3, 16:54:11
- about as many as pants has had at carrow road (n/m) (General Chat) - selwyn, May 3, 16:39:49
- 9 (n/m) (General Chat) - BSE Canary, May 3, 16:36:22
- none - its just a protest vote for morons (n/m) (General Chat) - fond, May 3, 16:28:42
  - Up to a point (General Chat) - norway, May 3, 16:29:58
- Hard to tell but most likely very few (General Chat) - norway, May 3, 16:28:16
  - Martin Bell might beg to differ (General Chat) - CWC, May 3, 20:14:00
  - agreed (General Chat) - SCC 28, May 3, 16:29:42
    - Similar with SDP (General Chat) - fond, May 3, 16:34:14
    - If we had proportional representation then it would be different (General Chat) - norway, May 3, 16:31:16
      - vmt (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, May 3, 16:31:30

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