Wesley Stevenson
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1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
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One alternative is the small district system, which gives you proportional representation...
over each district of four or five MPs.
It's similar to the method used in the European elections.
Another possibility is the alternative vote system where voters in each constituency can vote for a minor party and then their votes are transferred to a party that is more likely to win.
It was indeed.
And it's hard to say for sure what might have happened under these systems, especially in AV, because we can only guess at people's second preferences.
But generally the result is somewhere between the current first-past-the-post system and pure proportional representation.
UKIP always does better, the Conservatives and Labour always do worse, and we would have a hung Parliament with the Conservatives as the largest party.
But this assumes that people would vote in the same way under these systems.
There is evidence to suggest they would vote less tactically.
Yes, pollster Ben Page from Ipsos Mori, who was on last week, he's released his initial assessment of the reason the polls were wrong.
And he says it wasn't the famous shy Tory effect, but instead lazy Labour.
Labour Party voters who said they would show up and vote, but didn't.
As Ben told us last week, the main reason their polls didn't reflect the outcome was that they overestimated the Labour vote.
The other parties, they say, they got pretty much correct.
Well, that's his excuse anyway.
Right, well, this claim seems surprising considering the two countries' comparative wealth.
The UK is one of the world's richest countries, the sixth richest according to data from the World Bank, while Rwanda in Central Africa is one of the poorest.
So, as you can tell, life expectancy is better in England, even the most deprived parts, than it is in Rwanda as a whole.
But the headline's a little bit more subtle than that.
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