Originally Posted by
exuw
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"So a winning 251,417 votes out of a population of 66.1 million is democracy."
"Oh yes. It is also apathy."
It also demonstrates piss-poor intellectual capacity to seek to compare the number of votes cast with the entire population.
Try using the number of those entitled to vote instead.
251,417 is a lot more than 62 which was number of MPs who voted for David Cameron in 2005, in vote off of the 300,000 Tory members he won 134,000.
So what % of electorate is 134,000 again ?