21-08-2017 01:01 via huffingtonpost.co.uk

Labour Would Have Won General Election If UK Had Ditched 'Broken' Electoral System

Jeremy Corbyn could be Prime Minister if the UK had ditched first-past-the-post (FPTP) and introduced the same electoral system as Scotland. 
A study of the general election by the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) also found huge swathes of Labour strongholds would be held by the Conservatives if Westminster adopted a proportional representation (PR) system. 
But the ERS said Westminster’s “broken” FPTP elections are more like lottery than a real choice and millions of
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