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Originally Posted by ubertuber
This is really basic, but I'm trying... So, do people in the UK typically vote for people or for parties?
Actually, let me ask a two part question.
1) When you go vote, are you voting for a person or a party (I mean physically, not how do you decide)?
2) If you vote for a person, but not directly for the prime minister, do people typically vote for the local person based on his or her track record, or based on their party as a way of commenting on the prime minister?
By the way, happy election day to you guys!
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The country is divided up into constituencys (sp), in each of which you have a member of parliment. Everyone in a constituency (sp again damnit) votes for who they want to have as their member of parliment, who then goes on the voice the peoples wants and needs in parliment.
The party who gets the most members of parliment wins the election, and goes on to become government. What this means is that in theory, the party with the most votes overall can still lose the election because they didn't have as many seats.
People usually vote for the party they want, but some vote for the person, depends what you like to do.