General Election Results 2024 – Analysis

The data junkie in me has massaged the July 4^th election results into the following tables:

General Election Results 2024
Turn-out %	59.9		Electorate	48068275
Party	Seats	Change	Votes (%)	Change (% pt)	Votes
Labour	412	214	33.8	1.7	9,731,363
Conservative	121	-252	23.7	-19.9	6,827,112
Liberal Democrat	72	64	12.2	0.7	3,519,163
Scottish National Party	9	-38	2.5	-1.4	724,758
Sinn Féin	7	0	0.7	0.2	210,891
Others	7	4	2.9	–	842,013
Reform UK	5	5	14.3	–	4,106,661
Democratic Unionist Party	5	-3	0.6	-0.2	172,058
Green	4	3	6.8	4	1,943,258
Plaid Cymru	4	2	0.7	0.2	194,811
Social Democratic and Labour Party	2	0	0.3	-0.1	86,861
Alliance	1	0	0.4	0	117,191
Ulster Unionist Party	1	1	0.3	0	94,779
Workers Party of Britain	0	0	0.7	–	210,194
Alba	0	0	0	–	11,784
TOTALS	650	0	99.9	-14.8	28792897
None Of The Above					19275378

Party	Votes	% of Electorate	Seats per million voters
Labour	9,731,363	20.2	42.3
Conservative	6,827,112	14.2	17.7
Liberal Democrat	3,519,163	7.3	20.5
Scottish National Party	724,758	1.5	12.4
Sinn Féin	210,891	0.4	33.2
Others	842,013	1.8	8.3
Reform UK	4,106,661	8.5	1.2
Democratic Unionist Party	172,058	0.4	29.1
Green	1,943,258	4	2.1
Plaid Cymru	194,811	0.4	20.5
Social Democratic and Labour Party	86,861	0.2	23
Alliance	117,191	0.2	8.5
Ulster Unionist Party	94,779	0.2	10.6
Workers Party of Britain	210,194	0.4	0
Alba	11,784	0	0
TOTALS	28792897	59.7
None Of The Above	19275378	40.1

A few observations:

1. Sinn Fein got almost exactly the same number of votes as the Workers Party, yet got 7 seats against none at all.
2. The Workers Party got more votes than any of the DUP, Plaid Cymru, the SDLP, Alliance or the Ulster Unionists, yet got no seats at all, while the five parties below them totalled 13 seats.
3. Reform got one-sixth more votes than the Liberal Democrats, yet got only 5 seats against 72.
4. Reform got more than 5.6 times as many votes as the SNP, but only just over half the number of seats.
5. The 8.5% of the electorate who voted Reform received only 0.8% of the representation.
6. Only 34.4% of the electorate voted Labour or Tory, but they received 82% of the representation.
7. 65.6% of the electorate – very nearly two-thirds – are not represented in either the government or the official opposition.
8. 69.7% of the voters voted Labour, Tory or Lib Dem, but they received 93.1% of the representation.
9. The remaining 30.3% received only 6.9% of the representation.

If this is “representative democracy,” the system is clearly broken. But proportional representation has its own problems, too.