It's an ultra-proportional system which somehow managed to allow the centre-left to win the election last time despite getting less votes than the centre-right. Bit of a paradox.
Not enough balance seats, and they should use standard Sainte-Lague in instead of Modified SL...
The right is currently on a very comfortable 95-74, but that includes the two small centre-right parties. The Progress Party (UKIP lite) has lost ground to the Conservatives but hope to form a government with them and one of the centre-right parties - which would probably be the Conservative preference too. Social Democrats relieved to be still largest by a fair margin, and far left SV to have (maybe) survived at all. The Greens don't seem to have got in, though the ultra-left got a seat. Overall not too different from the polls though I think Progress will be privately a bit disappointed and the Conservatives very pleased. Figures continuously updated here:
'So many of "the cuts" have increased spending. Sacking District Nurses and forcing a million more people into A&E was an act of unparallelled genius.'
Like cutting GP's out-of-hours working and giving them massive pay increases.New Labour genius.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6157219.stm 29 Nov 2006 - Average GP pay soars by 30% in the first year of their new contract, ... during negotiations and is reflected in pay increases under the new ...
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Is Mike Smithson "The New Black" of political pundits ?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/09/time-for-leftwing-ukip-labour
http://www.nrk.no/valg2013/
'So many of "the cuts" have increased spending.
Sacking District Nurses and forcing a million more people into A&E was an act of unparallelled genius.'
Like cutting GP's out-of-hours working and giving them massive pay increases.New Labour genius.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6157219.stm
29 Nov 2006 - Average GP pay soars by 30% in the first year of their new contract, ... during negotiations and is reflected in pay increases under the new ...