The new parliamentary boundaries favour the Conservatives more than the 2005 constituency boundaries. So what you said isn’t true.
The problem for the Tories and even more so the Lib Dems is their support is more spread around the country while Labours voters are more concentrated up North and in London.
It means in Labour strongholds a 5% drop in the vote is nothing. There are Conservative strongholds, but nothing like what Labour have.
I don’t even think new boundaries could be arranged that would make it fair under our current first past the post voting system.
I agree it’s not a fair system that benefits Labour when looking at the popular vote share.
Proportional representation single transferable vote would make it fairer, though I doubt we’d ever again see a majority government (Labour or Conservative). We’d always have either Labour/Lib Dem or Conservative/Lib Dem coalition governments or maybe rainbow coalition governments if other parties started to gain support.
David
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