General Election 2015. Compare the seats won with the proportion of votes by drawing pie charts.

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Fill in this table and use it to draw a pie chart showing the proportion of the vote each party got in the 2015 General Election. You will need to combine some of the small parties into a category called "other".First fill in the table by working out how many degrees are needed for each sector of the pie chart. The first has been done for you. 11,334,920 ÷ 30,374,237 x 360=134.3

PartyVotesDegrees
Conservative 11,334,920134.3
Democratic Unionists184,260
Green Party1,157,613
Independent25,995
Labour Party 9,347,326
Liberal Democrats2,415,888
Plaid Cymru181,694
SDLP 99,809
Sinn Fein176,232
Scottish Nationalist Party1,454,436
UKIP 3,881,129
Ulster Unionist114,935
Total 30,374,237 359.9

Don't worry that the angles add up to 359.9. You have rounded all the figures so you would expect a small amount of error. This is very close to 360, so it is fine.



Now fill in this table and use it to draw a pie chart showing the proportion of the seats each party got in the 2015 General Election. You will need to combine some of the small parties into a category called "other". Conservatives have been calculated by 331 ÷ 650 x 360 because there are 650 seats and 360 degrees in a circle.



Party Seats wonDegrees
Conservative331183.3
Democratic Unionists8
Green Party1
Independent 1
Labour Party232
Liberal Democrats 8
Plaid Cymru3
SDLP3
Sinn Fein 4
Scottish Nationalist Party56
UKIP 1
Ulster Unionist2
Total 650 360.1

Now write a short paragraph explaining what your pie charts show. Do you think the first past the post system is fair?