Re: Quick Poll
Originally Posted by
susan m
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Will someone tell me how do i vote tactlicly what do you mean
Hi Susan
Tactical voting is an important part of the voting system simply because the voting system is a poor and devisive one. The voting system DOES not simply add up all the individual votes across the country for each party.
What is does is take each constituency separately and considers the votes for each party WITHIN each constituency.
Your first step is to go to this link below which lists the election results for each constituency.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies
Find your constituency in that list and click on it. You will then see on the page the breakdown of how people voted in your constituency at the election.
As an example take a look at the Preston results
You can see the resultls were :
Labour 24,210
Cons 8,487
UKIP 1,348
Lib 1,204
Green 348
This is what's called a "safe seat"
The support for Labour is overwhelming and it can be seen that however the other people vote they will never come close to Labour's votes even if they all clubbed together to vote Conservative.
Now go take a look at the results for Peterborough:
Lab 22,950
Con 22,343
Lib 1,597
Green 848
Here you can see that Labout narrowly won the seat by just a few 100 votes.
Now if you were normally a Lib Dem voter here you can see that voting Lib Dem is a totally wasted vote. The Peterborough people predominently vote Labour or Conservative so Lib Dems are never going to win.
Now let's also suppose that even though you are a Lib Dem supporter, you do also have preferences of the other parties. For example suppose that above all else you absolutely don't want a government run by Old Compo Corbyn. You want the Lib Dems to win, but theres zero chance of it in this constituency so instead, you can use your vote for tactical purposes. Since you can't help the Lib Dems, what you CAN do instead is vote Conservative. What that does is STOP Labour from winning the seat.
In the context of BrExit this will come down to whether you want us to get on with leaving the EU properly or whether you want us to Remain.
If you want to Leave then you need the Tories and / or BrExit Party to win the election.
In the above scenario for Peterborough, even though you might normally vote Lib Dem, you would tactically vote for Conservatives to ensure the Tories win this Peterborough Constituency.
You need to look at the numbers for your own constituency and weigh up the options. Remember the BrExit party will now be a new party that you can vote for.
If the Tories normally get very few votes in your constituency and if you want us to Leave the EU properly, then vote for the BrExit party instead or failing that vote for another party that usual gets plenty of votes but which isn't a party that wants to overturn the referendum result (Lib Dems).
In short, for Leavers it's Tories or BrExit party and if neither of those has a chance in their constituency then a tactical vote to keep Labour and Lib Dems out.
Hope that helps