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Ukip supporters have woken up this morning to find that the party retains only 1 MP, but they will surely feel cheated by an election system that has handed the SNP over 56 MPs for a much smaller number of votes.

Despite bringing in almost 4 million votes, making Ukip the third biggest party by vote share, this election has seen the fall of their leader Nigel Farage and second MP Mark Reckless.

The spectacular success of the SNP in Scotland throws into sharp relief the unfairness of the first-past-the-post system on smaller parties.

By the time Farage lost his seat at 10.30am, the SNP had amassed 1.43 million votes, and earned 56 places in Westminster, with all of Scotland declared.

By contrast 3.73 million votes for UKIP only converted into 1 MP at time of writing.

Back in March leader Nigel Farage said: “Regardless of how Ukip does in this election, the first past the post electoral system is bankrupt in modern Britain. We do need electoral reform and we will be pushing for electoral reform.”

Let's look at that again.

The SNP got a lot less votes

0.5 x The SNP has HALF as many votes as UKIP

But it got LOADS more seats

56X The SNP got 56X more seats

What's the secret? Get all your supporters to move to one place.

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