The New York Times, of all sources, provides a useful graphic presentation of the enormous oddity of the vote in the recent election in Britain that produced a parliamentary landslide for the Labour Party. What the election didn’t do, however, is produce a landslide vote for Labour. As has been mentioned previously, the Labour seat win is an artifact of Britain’s single-member district, first-past-the-post system. If Britain had a proportional representation system like most continental nations have, Britain would likely have a center-right coalition government following this election, with a minimal policy mandate, instead of the hard-left Labour supermajority that I predict will become unpopular very fast.

As the Times points out, the actual vote winner was the right (ignore the “hard” right nonsense)—the center-left parties hardly gained any vote support at all:

Next, notice how mal-apportioned House of Common seats are:

This makes our electoral college system Democrats hate look positively democratic! Funny how we don’t hear any of the usual “democracy” and “reform” advocates complaining about this outcome.