B efore a vote is counted, this much we know. More results than ever will involve the winning party getting a disproportionate amount of power, considering the number of votes cast for it; fewer people will get what they voted for. The ever more random roulette wheel of our voting system will produce wildly odd winners and losers. Our never-fit-for-purpose first-past-the-post system breaks apart under the strain of having five or sometimes six parties bunched together with no more than 11 percentage points between them in the polls. A vote share of less than 20% may secure a win. Look how bad the last local elections were: in 2024, Tories in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, scored 90% of the seats with 50.5% of the vote. Lewisham became a one-party Labour state with not one opposition councillor in 2022, on just 55.4% of the vote . Labour’s clean sweep of Barking and Dagenham’s seats was won similarly. Moscow and Pyongyang would be proud.…