• JoBo@feddit.uk
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    10 months ago

    The Labour vote share in my already Labour stronghold has increased? What the fuck? This isn’t how it’s supposed to work. I was told this was an evil plan by the Tories and the Electoral Commission. FFS!

    I am not making any comment on how disreputable these changes are but what you're seeing is exactly what you'd expect if the Tories were trying to load the dice. Gerrymandering can't disappear votes. It has to pack as many opposition votes as possible into as few constituencies as possible, leaving narrow wins for the gerrymanderer in all the remaining ones.