Stumbled across this website today, quite interesting (if depressing) http://www.voterpower.org.uk Locally, i have this: http://www.voterpower.org.uk/crawley Being a knife-edge lab/con split (something like 20 votes in it last election) i technically have a quite powerful vote if i wanted to vote labour or conservative. (but since i don't my vote is worthless ) rather shocking count of ~61% wasted votes though:
I've said it for a while that First Past the Post results in a large number of wasted votes. I'd like to see some sort of proportional representation or a hybrid of FPTP and PR like that used in the Scottish Government. My voter power: In Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill, one person does not really have one vote, they have the equivalent of 0.004 votes.
I also live in a razor thin marginal constituency, one of the closest in the country, the Weymouth constituency. It has swapped between Lab/Con quite a few times, so my vote is quite powerful. It makes a nice change from the Daventry constituency which I lived in for a long time, which has always been rock solid Conservative.
Apparently I'm marginal and I have 3.46x the average voter power. And I won't be voting big three because they're all dicks. http://www.voterpower.org.uk/filton-bradley-stoke
haha is it even worth me getting up out of my chair 0.168 votes The average UK voter has 1.52x more voting power than me
count yourself lucky, Mines 0.009 I have less chance of getting rid of the current MP than seeing an elephant fly past the window of my office. My constituency is number 628 out of 650 for voter power. Who's my MP? some tosser called Gordon Brown. Edit : oh and the average UK voter has 33.33x more voting power than me.
http://www.voterpower.org.uk/eastleigh I've never voted before, but I'll probably be voting for LD in this election. No one in my immediate family has ever bothered to vote from what I can remember.
http://www.voterpower.org.uk/coatbridge-chryston-bellshill I'm 642 out of 650, the average voter has 50x more voting power than me. Error in this one though: http://www.voterpower.org.uk/glasgow-east It fails to mention the bi-election in 2007 which the SNP won.
http://www.voterpower.org.uk/dorset-south I have 2.56x more voting power than the average UK voter. Dorset South is ranked 82 out of 650.
http://www.voterpower.org.uk/lewes Voting power is 0.156, and the average UK resident has 1.54X more power than me.
http://www.voterpower.org.uk/bassetlaw Voting power is 0.130, and the average UK voter has 1.92x more voting power than me. F*cksocks! It's odd.. the MP is John Mann and he's quite a reasonable fella... unfortunately, he's in bed with the wrong people so I shall be voting against him. Not that many new immigrants here compared to elsewhere, but they sheer number of career scroungers and job-shy around here means he is a shoe-in in every election.
Where I live my voting power is 0.026 . But kinda pointless here the only two party's you ever hear from here are both in power and both are s**t.
I live in a safe Plaid Cymru seat (Carmarthen East & Dinefwr) - of which I am very glad, since (a) I get to vote vote PC and (b) my MP was one of the few who voted against the Digital Economy Bill.
Hmmmmm my voting power is 0.010, The average UK voter has 25x more voting power than voters in Glasgow East. Of course as the website states that Glasgow East is ultra safe as a Labour seat however the SNP currently hold this seat, I dont think you can reliably believe anything it says.
Mine voted for it. So he's not getting my vote. As I discovered above, my seat is very marginal, so this could be interesting.
He's stepping down this year to become an AM, I also thought he was a decent bloke, he started the impeach bLiar campaign in parliament. Probably still a safe PC seat though as I expect that quite a few people who would have voted PC but refused to vote for a gay man will now return to voting PC. Moriquendi
