A proportionate council
Much talk today at County Hall about the proportionate distribution of committee seats, relative to the strength of each party's representation on the council. It seems timely to ponder what each party's council strength would be if councillors had been elected under a county-wide system of proportional representation.
Conservatives 34% of vote should have 42 seats (actually 50)
Liberal Democrats 28% of vote should have 34 seats (actually 38)
Independents 23% of vote should have 28 seats (actually 32)
Mebyon Kernow 4% of vote should have 5 seats (actually 3)
UKIP 3% of vote should have 4 seats (actually none)
Labour 3% of vote should have 4 seats (actually none)
Greens 2% of vote should have 3 seats (actually none)
Assorted others all on less than 1% of vote each should have 3 seats between them (actually none)
This was on a turnout of 41%, June 2009. Source: Cornwall Council's
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Comment number 1.
At 11th May 2010, TheCornishRep wrote:Thanks for that Graham. However under a PR system it is likely that people would vote differently.
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At 11th May 2010, Oksana wrote:i want Eastenders!
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Comment number 3.
At 12th May 2010, Stephen Richardson wrote:How can you possibly extrapolate seats like this. There is no form of PR being currently discussed that simply awards seats according to the percentage of vote accross any region - never mind the Duchy.
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