In article <Zh5xm.235912$tD4.130159@newsfe07.ams2>, 
guy.barry@blueyonder.co.uk (Guy Barry) wrote:

> I'm still a little confused here.  You said that "most voters will
> continue to be unrepresented in Parliament by MPs they choose".  If 
> every MP has over 50% of the vote, then surely most voters *will* be 
> represented by MPs they choose.  The party with an overall majority 
> of the vote may still not win the most seats of course, but I'd have 
> thought that purely in terms of
> constituency representation (rather than the overall composition of
> Parliament) AV was a fairer system than FPTP.

That a party can win over 50% of the national vote by winning a large 
majority of the votes in a minority of the seats and losing the majority 
of the seats is the main problem.

AV may appear to give a majority support to each MP but I expect few will 
get over 50% of the first preferences so the majority will be a bit false. 
The other problem is that parties have next to no representation in some 
regions, Tories in the Cities, Scotland and Wales, Labour in South and 
East England. Yet both parties have substantial votes within those area 
that are badly under represented in their decision-making bodies.

-- 
Cllr. Colin Rosenstiel
Council member, Electoral Reform Society
http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/
mailto:ers@electoral-reform.org.uk