{"id":41,"date":"2017-01-02T17:18:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T17:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/195.62.29.123\/~marriottstats\/nigels-blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2017-02-18T20:11:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T20:11:54","slug":"first-past-the-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/first-past-the-post\/","title":{"rendered":"UK General Election 2015 #2 – What would the result have been using the d’Hondt election system?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2015 General Election surprised many people when the Conservatives unexpectedly won a small majority though I should blow my own trumpet and say it wasn’t quite a surprise for me<\/a>!\u00a0 One thing that wasn’t a surprise were complaints about the perceived unfairness of the F\"\"irst Past The Post election system with UKIP joining the Lib Dems with their criticisms.<\/p>\n

Using the election results, I decided to see how the results would differ if a different election system had been used.\u00a0 The system I decided to explore was the d’Hondt system <\/a>which is one of the most common PR systems in use and is used by the UK in EU elections.<\/p>\n

The results of my analysis was published in the Significance magazine and you can see what I wrote in my article “A very different result<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

There are of course other election systems and I plan to write other posts looking at what the results might have been using those.<\/p>\n

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The 2015 General Election surprised many people when the Conservatives unexpectedly won a small majority though I should blow my own trumpet and say it wasn’t quite a surprise for me!\u00a0 One thing that wasn’t a surprise were complaints about the perceived unfairness of the First Past The Post election system with UKIP joining the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10],"class_list":{"0":"post-41","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-elections","8":"tag-election","9":"entry","10":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marriott-stats.com\/nigels-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}