And sadly, I must report that the PM will be Cameron, the Tory, after the Lib Dems decided to throw in with them on a promise of a referendum on alternative voting. I don't know the details of the promise, but I can't help but feel the Tories wouldn't have offered it if they thought there were any chance of it actually happening, as the current system favours the two biggest parties disproportionately*.
Consider this basically an Open Thread on the UK election results, if you will.
* The current system, for instance, where Labour gained something like 23% (I think? can't be arsed to look it up, but the next part's true) of the vote, only a couple of per cent more than the Liberal Democrats, but were able to claim nearly five times as many seats in Parliament. This works because First Past the Post systems only reward victory in a binary/zero-sum fashion (one party wins the seat, all the others lose; you could come second in every riding in the land, take 49% of the popular vote, and still not win a single seat if each riding had someone from another party who was even 1% more popular). Lib Dems (and the Greens, and other small parties) would like very much to see a shift to some form of either mixed or proportional representation, where results are closer to those predicted by the popular vote.
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