… Our goal here is to explain what happens in the operation of the UK's electoral system,
and why geography is so important to that, and we have chosen to do so by words and 'pictures'. …

… Votes to Seats is the culmination of years of careful and collaborative research on the behavior
of voters and parties in the British electoral system. … British elections (the number of seats …

… Electoral Systems in 1909, states that if the vote cast for the two leading parties at an election
is divided in the proportion A:B, the seats … electoral system gave each camp secure seats in …

… and Labour seats:votes ratio. The UK electoral system has thus resulted in biased election
… did well although the turnout was the lowest since 1945. 12. The reported interaction bias is …

… system or an electoral system which does not operate in the … , a number of seats in UK
general elections may be won by … majority of voters who, certainly in the UK since 1945, have …

… 1945 there was a bias favouring Labour (an ‘error’ in the prediction of its share of the seats
relative to that of the votes) of six seats… because the operation of the UK electoral system was …

… votes cast to seats awarded to parties is a common performance indicator of the functioning
of electoral systems, … average vote share of governments elected in our earlier period (1945–…

… in my work. … votes against Churchill, who of course retained his seat. Many people, it seems,
felt that although he did well during the war he was not the leader Britain needed for the post-…

… procedure. Labour now benefits very handsomely from the procedure for translating votes
into seats: 50 years ago, the Conservatives benefited substantially from the same procedure. …

… Elections are not just matters of who votes, but how they vote, and where. The organization
of electoral systems … the bill, restricting its operation to the 174 seats in boroughs with more …