Elections and Voting Key Facts

Question 1

What percentage of MPs are women?

Answer 1

29%

Question 2

What is the percentage of BAME MPs?

Answer 2

6%

Question 3

In 2010, by what margin did Glenda Jackson win the seat of Hampstead and Kilburn?

Answer 3

32.8% to 32.7%, 42 votes

Question 4

Under a proportional system, how many seats would UKIP have in parliament?

Answer 4

83

Question 5

Labour received 20% of the vote in Eastern England in 2010, but how many MPs did they receive?

Answer 5

2 out of 58

Question 6

When was the last time a party won a majority of votes in a general election?

Answer 6

1935

Question 7

What percentage of votes in 2010 were wasted?

Answer 7

71%

Question 8

What was the deviation from proportionality for the 2010 general election compared to for the 2011 NI assembly election?

Answer 8

23% to 8%

Question 9

What is the highest district magnitude in European elections, and what’s the lowest?

Answer 9

10 MEPs (South East), 3 MEPs (North East)

Question 10

How many times more electors does the Isle of Wight have compared to the Western Isles

Answer 10

5

Question 11

What percentage vote did the two main parties get in 1951, and what did they get in 2015?

Answer 11

97% to 67%

Question 12

What is the average turnout for seats held by Labour compared to Conservatives?

Answer 12

61% to 68%

Question 13

On average, how many fewer electors were there in the electorates which returned Labour MPs in 2010 to those that returned Conservatives?

Answer 13

3,800

Question 14

How many ballots were rejected in the 2007 Scottish parliament election?

Answer 14

146,000

Question 15

How many voters in 1964 were “very strong” supporters of one of the two main parties in 1964 compared to 2005?

Answer 15

43% to 13%

Question 16

How many more DE class voters voted Labour in 2010 than AB?

Answer 16

13%

Question 17

How many more DE class voters voted Labour in 1974 than AB?

Answer 17

38%

Question 18

How much money did political parties spend campaigning in 2010?

Answer 18

£31 million

Question 19

In 2010, how much greater was Labour’s support amongst women than men?

Answer 19

3%

Question 20

What was the deviation from proportionality for the 2009 European Elections (Regional List PR)?

Answer 20

18%

Question 21

Dr. Richard Taylor served as an independent MP for Wyre forest on a platform campaigning for what?

Answer 21

Saving Kidderminster Hospital

Question 22

How many hung parliaments have there been in Britain since the second world war?

Answer 22

2, one in 1974 and one in 2010