UK Tab B

Index

Comparison of  the current First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) system, the proposed AV system,
and the ProFirst (Proportional FPTP) proposal, each applied to the 2010 UK election counts
A - Parties winning at least one seat
Country	Current FPTP system			Proposed AV system			ProFirst (PFPTP) system
U N I T E D            K I N G D O M	Votes under FPTP	Seats won (i.e. voting power in the House under the current FPTP system)		Votes under AV	Seats won (i.e. voting power in the House under the proposed AV system)		Seats       won	Winning parties' actual total poll figures        (and therefore also ProFirst voting power at each Division in the House)
								Total votes cast		Average voting power per MP
		No.	%		No.	%	No.	No.	%
Winning parties:	Votes used			Votes used				Votes used
Alliance	12,839	1	0.2%	0	0	0.0%	1	41,394	0.1%	41,394
Conservative	7,299,387	306	47.1%	7,117,344	286	44.1%	306	10,726,555	38.9%	35,054
DUP	119,235	8	1.2%	143,038	9	1.4%	8	168,216	0.6%	21,027
Green	16,238	1	0.2%	19,603	1	0.2%	1	258,954	0.9%	258,954
Independents (NI)	21,181	1	0.2%	44,775	2	0.3%	1	21,181	0.1%	21,181
Labour	5,000,922	258	39.8%	5,447,038	262	40.4%	258	8,606,518	31.2%	33,359
Lib-Dem	1,231,743	57	8.8%	1,650,882	73	11.2%	57	6,836,488	24.8%	119,938
Plaid Cymru	35,743	3	0.5%	41,111	3	0.5%	3	165,394	0.6%	55,131
SDLP	51,596	3	0.5%	56,612	3	0.5%	3	110,970	0.4%	36,990
Sinn Fein	102,290	5	0.8%	81,129	4	0.6%	5	171,942	0.6%	34,388
SNP	88,352	6	0.9%	109,455	6	0.9%	6	491,376	1.8%	81,896
All winning                  candidates	13,979,526	649	100.0%	14,710,987	649	100.0%	649	27,598,988	100.0%	42,525
	47.1%	of all votes cast		49.6%	of all votes cast			93.0%	of all votes cast
Total votes cast	29,684,826			29,684,826				29,684,828
	100.0%	of all votes cast		100.0%	of all votes cast			100.0%	of all votes cast
				AV results based on simulation program AVOTER (AV Operational Testing, Evaluation and Research)