DUP: 184,260 votes = 8 Seats = 23,033 votes per seat
SNP: 1,454436 votes = 56 Seats = 25,972 votes per seat
SD&LP 99,809 votes = 3 Seats = 33,270 votes per seat
Con: 11,116255 votes = 325 Seats = 34,204 votes per seat
Lab: 9,236,878 votes = 230 Seats = 40,160 votes per seat
SF: 176,232 votes = 4 Seats = 44,058 votes per seat
UUP: 114,935 votes = 2 Seats = 57,468 votes per seat
PC: 181,694 votes = 3 Seats = 60,565 votes per seat
LD: 2,359,368 votes = 8 Seats = 294,921 votes per seat
UKIP: 3,830,029 votes = 1 Seat = 3,830,029 votes per seat
Of course the various types of proportional representation have their own issues.
I don't see the problem. The UK system is about the person in an area who garners the most votes being elected to represent an area. The big two parties concentrate their efforts on winning in as many marginals as possible, so the others who go round mopping relatively large amounts of votes winning second or third places are simply showing that they aren't as representative as the parties who win. It is only our self-obsessed nation who think that their own idiosyncratic view should determine 1/50 millionth of the influence in Westminster.
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