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[djm4_lj]

Last year, America elected its first black president. This year, Britain elected its first two BNP MEPs. Way to respond, my country.

I don't want to get up today. In London, Jonathan Fryer was only 8000 votes off being elected, too.

Edit: ...or so his Twitter said, but I guess in the small hours of the morning he miscounted, or mistakenly saw the margin to Labour. He'd actually have needed just under 80,000.

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[softfruit.livejournal.com]

I'm in a hurry so doing it in my head, but I think djm's maths is right.

[djm4]

I can't claim any credit for the figure, which I got from Jonathan's Twitter. It's certainly possible that it dropped a zero somewhere.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

My calculation show that the last seat was won by the Tories, setting the quota at 479037/3 = 159679 votes per seat, so the LDs needed 2*159679 - 240156 votes to get another seat - is that wrong?