The turnout is down in all three Brighton and Hove constituencies, with the biggest drop in Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven.
The highest turnout was in Hove and Portslade, with 70.42 per cent of electors casting their vote or 52,156 out of 74,063. The percentage was down from 75.9 per cent in 2019.
Next was Brighton Pavilion, where the Greens are increasingly confident of holding the seat won by Caroline Lucas in 2010 and, with her retirement from the Commons, where Sian Berry is standing.
The turnout fell from 73.4 per cent to 70.3 per cent, with 52,572 of the 74,786 electors voting.
In Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, where the former Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle was suspended, the turnout fell from 69.5 per cent to 59.96 per cent, with 41,243 electors out of 68,784 voting.
A by-election is also being held for a seat on Brighton and Hove City Council in the Brunswick and Adelaide ward after Labour councillor Jilly Stevens stood down because of ill health.
The seat is looking tightly contested between Labour and the Greens, with a turnout of 65.14 per cent – or 5,321 electors out 8,030.
The first result has yet to be announced.
Interestingly that nationally only over 34% voted for Labour and 66% voted for other parties.
Looking at the entire electorate only 20% voted Labour.
Interesting statistic – Reform UK got double the votes of the Greens, but both got 4 MPs.
Thus the weaknesses of FPTP voting are revealed.
So true, but you don’t kick away the ladder you used to climb to the top.
Why would Labour now want to change the voting system?
Absolutely, I don’t see Labour having anything bad to say about the system right now, haha!
But PR systems also have their issues.
The Dutch use PR and the whole country is one constituency.
The last Dutch election was on 22nd November. The new PM and cabinet was sworn in this week because no one party got a majority. The current coalition has 4 parties in it. None of the party leaders sit in the cabinet. Their chosen PM is a former civil servant.
Germany uses PR. It elects 299 members via constituency and 299 via various lists and proportional methods.
Because of ‘overhang” where a party has more seats than its vote % merits other parties get additional seats. To make the final result more proportional. And if one party has an underhang they get extra seats to make their numbers up but that can also affect other party numbers as well.
The current Bundestag now has 734 members to rectify over and under hang. It’s proportional but is it democratic when more members are elected via lists than constituencies?
If people want PR they need to specify exactly which method they want.
Whereas the alternative or ranked choice voting maybe more acceptable as each MP will have at some stage in the count 50% or more of the vote so is more acceptable. But those aren’t proportional methods.
France feels like an excellent real world modern example right now on this discussion.
Thankfully we don’t live in a PR system as seen in France where any tom dick and harry right wing racist parties can get in.
France doesn’t have PR.
They basically have first past the post but over two rounds
‘Steve’ doesn’t care about facts, obviously. He just wanted to lay the boot into right wing ‘rascists’. Like most left wing ‘idiots’, he doesn’t let facts get in the way of his ‘beliefs’!
Why would you be here defending Right Wing Racists. Are you owning it? If so thats refreshing. Most pretend they are just worried about overcrowding in the UK, Housing and GP surgeries but being a straight up racist is rarely promoted. Good on you for being an honest racist. It’s a rare find.
I didn’t vote for first time in in 66 years because I didn’t know who to vote for none of the parties had anything new or aspiring to say
That’s a shame,
I think pragmatically though, new or inspiring things said have been impossible realities, especially with our economies on such a knife edge. One wrong policy could see another Lis Truss fiasco in the markets, so safe and boring is really going to be the name of the game.
note how many rejected ballot papers there were
(copied from Council’s web site)
Election of a Member of Parliment (sic!)- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven Constituency
Candidate name and Party
Number of votes
Valerie Gray – Social Democratic Party
784
Elaine Hills – Green Party
7,997
Stewart Malcolm Stone – Liberal Democrats
3,949
Khobi Anne Vallis – The Conservative Party Candidate
8,230
Emma Lucy Wall – Independent
1,833
Chris Ward – Labour Party
17,893
The number of ballot papers rejected was as follows:
Reason
Number of votes
Want of official mark
0
Voting for more than permitted number
28
Mark identifying voter
2
Unmarked or Uncertain
527
Total Number of Rejected Votes
557
It was 140 in 2019.
I’d suggest part of the increase might be LRM supporters wanting to make some sort of statement and some who feel it’s important to go and have it recorded thst they took a ballot paper but didn’t like any of the candidates.
And perhaps an uptick of people with postal votes forgetting to actually put a X on the paper?
Been watching the news regarding the ID requirement potentially has blocked a lot of voters from being able to do so?