Jill Stephenson is mistaken in her complaints about the Scottish parliament proportional representation system (Letters, 19 February). She says the Green party “won 0.6% of the vote and received six list seats”. The Green party won 0.6% of the constituency vote, but also took 6.6% of the top-up list votes, giving them their six seats.
Does Ms Stephenson wish to return to constituency first-past-the-post-only voting? Under that scenario the SNP’s majority at Holyrood would be overwhelming.
Mark McKergow
Edinburgh
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