Blair still refuses to change the ward boundaries to provide an equal number of voters per seat and reduce the Labour advantage. In the 2005 election, Labour received 9,562,122 votes compared to the Conservatives, who received 8,772,598 and the Liberals, who received 5,981,874. The number of seats allocated to the parties after the election is unrepresentative of the views of the nation: Labour only won 35.3% of the votes, but got 55.2% of the seats in the House of Commons while the Tories won 32.3% of the votes, but only 30.7% of the seats. Even more disproportionably, the Lib Dems won 22.1% of votes but only 9.6% of seats.
Surely it is time to redraw the boundaries and create a level political playing field?
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