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Website of the Week (WC 12th April 2010) - Voter Power Index

Date	Monday, April 12, 2010
Topic	Governance Civic Participation Governance & Civic Participation

This week's Website of the Week is the Voter Power Index website (www.voterpower.org.uk) from the New Economics Foundation. Find out how powerful your vote is compared to the UK average.

If you would like to nominate an international, national, regional or local site with an environmental flavour please contact info@yhref.org.uk.

About the Voter Power Index

In the 2005 election, more than half of all voters voted against their winning MP. Their votes were simply thrown away. In the UK, the only voters with any real power to choose the government are those who live in marginal constituencies. Less than 20% of constituencies can be considered marginal. The rest of us have little or no power to influence the outcome of the election.

In fact, statistical analysis by the nef (the new economics foundation) shows that one person in the UK does not have one vote...

...it's more like 0.25 votes.

In some ultra safe constituencies the value of your vote falls to practically zero.

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