In fairness to Ceredigion, any fair voting method would yield the same result. It’s a coin flip between plaid and labour, and the voters don’t particularly mind either. It was the lib dems before that, and while they are usually yellow Tories, Mark Williams is alright.
Happens in Canada also, the most popular party usually comes out of the election like bandits with far more representation than their vote totals would imply.
Oh man wait until you see the UK elections.![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/baf90232-cdba-4069-8f92-2b5f40dc3483.png)
These candidates all won their seat![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c733abf6-1247-470a-bfd4-79879660559e.png)
In fairness to Ceredigion, any fair voting method would yield the same result. It’s a coin flip between plaid and labour, and the voters don’t particularly mind either. It was the lib dems before that, and while they are usually yellow Tories, Mark Williams is alright.
The system is ridiculous though.
Happens in Canada also, the most popular party usually comes out of the election like bandits with far more representation than their vote totals would imply.