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The UK Election Results Were the Worst in History
CGP Grey explains how the 2015 UK general election showed the flaws of first-past-the-post voting, with parties like UKIP winning many votes but few seats.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a short, clear illustration of how first-past-the-post misrepresents voters.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- CGP Grey
- Topic
- first past the post voting
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I think you'll appreciate this CGO Grey video: [VIDEO] . You're not wrong , but the system is nonetheless extremely misrepresentative.
Qwertious on Hacker News · 2015-07
In Why do some countries drive on the left and others on the right?> suggests a lack of representation That's a big can of worms for HN. Suffice to say we have one of the least representative democracies and it's steadily getting worse. First past the post is no longer fit for an electorate that wants to vote …
NeedMoreTea on Hacker News · 2019-04
In Does the UK Think It Can Police the Internet?> creepy undemocratic bureaucracy of the EU > need for control and action on a local level Ah you mean that local control and democracy when the party with 13% of the votes gets 0.2% seats in the parliament", right? [1] [1] Great CGP Grey …
dmitriid on Hacker News · 2022-04
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