Is Bourgeois representative democracy democratic?
Is it a democracy when none of its representatives were endorsed by even half of their constituents?
There are 650 MPs. If we rank them all by this measure of legitimacy, the median MP won 30.1 per cent of their votes, which is very similar to the mean winning margin (30.6 per cent).
14 sitting MPs were backed by less than a fifth of their constituents.
In other words, most MPs are endorsed by less a third of their constituency.
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