How many people did NOT vote for Tony Blair in the last general election?

Answer 1

MMMMeeeeeee I didn't vote for him. I don't think you'll find any one that did or at least would admit they did

Answer 2

In fact only 24,421 people voted for Tony Blair at the last General Election. That was the number of votes he received in his Sedgefield constituency.

Under the British electoral system we do not directly elect our Head of Government. We vote for an individual who represents the Party whose policies we support. The Leader of the Party who wins the most seats in the House of Commons then is invited by Her Majesty the Queen to become Prime Minister.

In fact the only people to have ever voted for Tony Blair are the people of Beaconsfield (where he lost to a Conservative in 1983), Sedgefield which he has represented since 1987, and those Labour Party members who voted for him in the Labour Party leadership election following the death of John Smith.

Answer 3

The balloting device is diverse over right here, we don't vote for a fantastic minister on the instant, yet for a candidate in a occasion and then then easily the triumphing occasion chooses their very own representative. The question might desire to be why did the country vote Bush returned, by way of fact they actually do have direct impact on that!

Answer 4

Well, since people vote within their own constituency, only people who live in Sedgefield could vote for Tony Blair. Most did, but that's still less than 1% of the electorate.

Answer 5

Well, only people who live in his constituency, for a start.
Everyone else has a different candidate.

Are you talking about the proportion of people who voted Labour...

As always happens in this country, the majority of people DO NOT vote for the party that wins...it's nothing new, it's because we use the first past the post voting system.

The only party who wants to change it (and the only major party who would benefit) is the Liberal Democrats.

Answer 6

Most people. Only 24 421 people actually voted for Tony Blair(And 82 people voted for someone who changed her name to Blairout).

To be less glib, 35.3 % of people who voted, voted for Labour. And only 61.3 % of those eligible to vote actually did so.

There were 9,562,122 votes cast for Labour, according to wikipedia, and in 2005 the population of the UK was 60.2 million, so overall 84.1% of the *entire* population of the UK did NOT vote for TB's Labour party.

Just considering those eligible to vote, I get 44 226 308 eligible voters by extrapolating from the number of votes cast, so 78.4% of the electorate did not vote for Labour. Going back to Tony Blair himself, 99.4% of the electorate did NOT vote for him. Taking it one step further, 99.96% of the population didn't vote for him (and I'm in that crowd, for what it's worth). And I really should give it a rest!

See, I think it's a crying shame, considering the amount of bullshit I can generate given just a few figures, that I didn't pass the Civil Service exams. ;)

Answer 7

take the number of those in Blair's constituency who were eligible to vote and subtract the number of those who voted for him.

or

take the total population of the world and subtract the number of people who voted for Blair in the last general election.

btw, I would have voted for him if I could. He's a great man.

Answer 8

In the 2001 elections, only 1 in 4 people voted for Labour.
In the 2005 elections, only 1 in 5 people voted Labour.

If this carries on, one day no one will vote for them and they will still win.

Answer 9

I didn't vote for T.Blair, but as mentioned earlier, only people who live in his constituency(Sedgefield) can vote for him, as you vote for your local MP, who represents the party, in which you most like to represent you, in the the House of Commons (Westminster).

As for why, Labour get/got in power, in the last couple of elections, is a different matter all together.
As our electoral system is one, which is known as "first past the post" (F.P.T.P), which means that the party who gets 1 constituency elected, over the half way mark, of what's needed, wins over-all control of the House of Commons, but that doesn't naturally mean, that half the country voted for the winning party. As in our case at the moment, only about 40% of the country vote in elections(also known as voter apathy), you would only need 20% of the countries' votes to gain power of parliament, as it stands at the moment.

A fairer way of representing how the country feels/votes, would be the voting method called Proportional Representation (PR), which means, every party who aquires a vote/elected constituency, in the elections is presented proportionatly to the percentage who vote, which taking labours percentage as an example at the moment, they wouldn't be in power, and definitely wouldn't have much of say in the House of Commons either.

But so far Labour and previous governing parties of this country, have refused to change the electoral system to PR, let me think, I wonder why that is??

As for will it change, well we may see some changes soon, in the next general elections, as most political pundits, are suggesting that we may get, what is known as a "Hung Parliament", which is where no party has overall control of the House of Commons (another downside of F.P.T.P), so no, one party can govern the country, which makes it extremely difficult to do anything, or get anything done to govern the country.

If this were the case, where we do get a hung parliament, changes would definitely have to be made, to give one party sole control to govern, but likely, more democratically, which in turn helps the voters.

Hope this has cleared up your question, which I understood, as "why is T.B in control of the country?" in a roundabout way.

Any more questions, on this countries' government/electoral process, are welcome.

Answer 10

I would definitely vote Tory so I am screwed. I think we should have a 'non of the above' box so I can register the fact that I have been bothered to go to the polling station but not inspired to pick a candidate.

Answer 11

24421 people voted FOR Tony Blair.

Everyone else who cast a vote voted for somebody else.