A Labour landslide could make this the most disproportionate election since universal suffrage – time for electoral reform?

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A Labour landslide could make this the most disproportionate election since universal suffrage – time for electoral reform?

Flickr/UK Parliament, CC BY-NC-NDPolls ahead of the UK election not only point towards defeat for the government, but a veritable trouncing. With some showing below 20% support, the Conservatives have never polled worse. Some multiple regression and post-stratification (MRP) polls, which enable seat-level analysis, suggest record margins of defeat. One has the Conservatives winning fewer than 100 of 650 seats in the House of Commons. Political s…