Sir – By simply combining the votes cast in the two Oxford and Abingdon constituencies, the three largest parties received the following total votes: Liberal-Democrat 41,087, Conservative 33,633, Labour 27,937. However all these voters are represented by one MP from the second party, one from the third party, and none at all from the party that out-voted all others by over 7,000 votes.
It would be easy to imagine a boundary line contrived to divide the constituencies in a different way, such that there were two Liberal-Democrat MPs, and none from the other two parties.
I leave the reader to judge for him or herself whether the people of Oxford are justly represented in parliament by this system of voting.
Is the system is fair and truly democratic, or would some moderated form of proportional representation serve us better?
Ken Weavers, Headington
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