Parties regularly form a government even if the majority of voters don’t want them to. This situation has grown worse as voters have chosen to support a wider range of parties – 2024 was the first election when four parties won over 10% of the vote.
UK General Elections
Did the majority of voters vote for parties that formed the government?
Voters can experience huge shifts in policy from one government to the next – on the basis of a handful of voters in battleground seats changing their mind.
The way we elect MPs makes it harder for parties to collaborate on long-term challenges facing society – and makes for bad government.