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UK Government has weakest electoral mandate in G8 countries

CountryTurnoutGovt's percentage of voters
Japan59.931.3
USA6030.6
Russia64.345.8
Germany79.137.4
France64.424.8
Spain (not G8)77.232.9
Italy81.334.6
UK61.321.6
Canada60.922.4 (hung parliament)
(modified following helpful comment)

Comments

Bob Piper said…
Have I missed something? I know I've slept a bit since last Thursday, but I could have sworn Labour got a clear majority of the seats, yet John has got it down as a hung Parliament. In your dreams, Johnny!.
John Hemming said…
So I got Canada and UK mixed up when modifying the table.

One of the problems with blogger is that you have to enter tables as HTML with no carriage returns.
This means spotting errors as you are typing is harder.

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