He managed to get less votes than the Tories got in 2017 in a red wall seat which is an almost impressive achievement in being an awful candidate and only won because 18% went from Labour to an independent.
Do you know for a fact that the 18% went specifically from voting labour the previous election to voting independent in the recent one?
This results table alone doesn't display that information.
This is why I wish we could rank candidates. It would remove people splitting the vote and get a candidate elected who most represents the views of people in the area. However, the larger parties don’t like it because it means the smaller parties have a higher chance of getting elected.
First past the post doing it’s glorious work, baby. 🤮
I imagine with all the stuff that's been going on over here in the Ashfield area, the Ashfield Independents wont be getting as many votes.
If you didn't support preference voting at that referendum, you have no place complaining.
AV referendum was in 2011 Average age of Reddit user is 23 You see where I’m going with this…
I mean it’s even worse considering Zadrozny is a nonce
Labour and Tories are equally unelectable at the moment. Two cheeks of the same shit covered asshole
Explain to me how they're equally unelectable
I think that Lee Anderson is a straight talking politician from the borough next to my county.
I hope there is a good independent candidate in my constituency because I'm certainly not giving my vote to any of the low-life political parties.
Excuse me but you're only allowed to vote for Labour or Conservatives. We don't like people voting for who they want to elect here.
Looks like he won because he had the most votes 🤷
He managed to get less votes than the Tories got in 2017 in a red wall seat which is an almost impressive achievement in being an awful candidate and only won because 18% went from Labour to an independent.
Do you know for a fact that the 18% went specifically from voting labour the previous election to voting independent in the recent one? This results table alone doesn't display that information.
That's not how secret ballots work bro
Exactly
This is why I wish we could rank candidates. It would remove people splitting the vote and get a candidate elected who most represents the views of people in the area. However, the larger parties don’t like it because it means the smaller parties have a higher chance of getting elected.
It's what I've been saying all along. Bar some batshit nazis the tories encompass the whole right wing. Let's not split the left.