blueskiesIt's not so much how many votes they need to win a seat, it's how many votes they got per seat... Nationally. Individual seats will be won by a certain number of votes - that's the same for all parties, but nationally Lib Dems must get a lot of second places.
For example if a party came second with 49% of the vote in every single seat, and two other parties got either 50% or 0% - those parties would have all of the seats between them but about 25% of the national vote each, whereas that one would have 49% of the vote and have no seats at all.
pixonuIt does need a shake-up. my constituency (which is a huge region) gets one conservative seat, whereas the Hull region gets 3 (Labour) seats. Even tho I hate Cameron... he did win (%) so Clegg is doing the right thing, even though I don't see how the two parties will merge on policies. Will have to wait and see I guess!