Freda Smith 🗿
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Love new music and new bands. Detest the Tories, far right, the orange blimp, and fartage "It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope." Jim Acosta From UK near London
![Mark Francis Tully
7 July at 22:31
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Here's a political conundrum to think about.
In the 2024 General Election Clacton had 78,703 registered voters.
The turnout was 58.4%.
That equates to 45,963 people voting, [45,962.552].
32,740 registered voters didn’t vote.
Farage got 46.2% of the votes cast. A total of 21,225 votes.
21,225/78,703 is 26.9 % of the total registered voters.
The majority of registered voters, in Clacton, did not vote for Farage.
73% of the registered voters did not vote for him.
Statistically he is not liked by the majority of registered voters.
His "victory" was very much a hollow one.
It is incorrect to say that the people of Clacton love him.
Why is it then, that the Media sell him as "The Man of The People" when almost three-quarters of the registered voters, in the Constituency he represents, have no time for him?
Does anyone know what the Rules are if all the registered voters in a Constituency do not vote?
The madness of the current UK electoral system is that, using Clacton as an example, if only one candidate stands, and only one vote is cast, that candidate will be elected with 100% of the votes cast.
Even though 0.0012705996% of the registered voters enacted the Suffrage.
If no one stands against Farage, and the turnout is the same, at 58.4%, and Farage gets 46.2% of the votes cast, his victory will not be a "Ringing Endorsement", as only 26.9 % of registered voters in the constituency will have voted for him.
IMHO this is why, when percentages are reported, it should be a statutory requirement to state the percentage of what, the whole is.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:csxe6qxf4o5ckcr2zqffgplz/bafkreigyaerxjwlrt2xn4dbavtq7ok76knaz5jtajj35arkugt62v223ru)
