CORRESPONDENCE
THE BRITISH ELECTIONS
(To tho Editor.)
Sir, —I notice in your Saturday's issue that you placed the headline "Sweeping Victory". over the cabled results of the British elections. The most outstanding fact, however, in common with the rest of the critics, you appear to have passed unnoticed, namely, the unwarranted majority of the Government as the result of an unfair electoral system. For the 615 seats there were polled in round figures 21,875,000 votes, of which the Government polled 11,732,000 and the Opposition 10,140,000. In fact the Government gained 426 seats, but its proper proportion is 332 seats. The Opposition, on the other hand, has won only 183 seats when its proper proportion is 277 seats, and thus the Government instead of a majority of 243 seats should have 58 only! The election affords one. more illustration of the fact that under the present electoral system the majority invariably obtains many more seats than its proper proportion. Having regard to the united opposition of the daily Press, the fact is that Labour has achieved a magnificent result and one which is pregnant with potentialities. —I am, etc., P. J. O'REGAN. November 21.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 10
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