Political Question

[drplokta]

Suppose that the Tories manage to scrape together enough votes for a small majority, and form the next government, with the LibDems getting the second-highest number of votes but fewer than half as many seats as Labour (maybe 38% Conservative (327 seats), 28% LibDem (86 seats), 25% Labour (210 seats)). Who gets to be the official Opposition?

Comments

[incy.livejournal.com]

Labour - the electoral system works on the number of MPs you have not the number of votes. Hence you end up with a majority of MPs with less then 50% of the vote.