In the latest United Kingdom General Election, votes per seat breakdown per party:
Conservative: 34980
Labour: 33370
Liberal Democrat: 119944
That is, a Liberal Democrat vote is worth 27.8% of a Labour vote, and 29.2% of a Conservative vote.
If every Lib Dem seat cost as much as a Labour seat, then they would have had 1.9 million votes. Instead, it was 6.8 million votes. That means that 4.9 million people wasted their votes in the UK- a sixth of the turnout.
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