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Thursday, 3 November 2011
Ballot turnout - hypocrisy of Tory attack dogs
The UNISON ballot result was greeted with predictable attacks by Tory politicians on the level of turnout. Yet two thirds of MPs (433, 66.6%) elected in 2010 did not have the support of a majority of voters – as highlighted on the map of ‘minority mandates’ published by the Electoral Reform Society: http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/minority-mandates