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[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

The UK is split up into 650 areas. During a GENERAL election everybody eligible, and that can be bothered, in a constituency votes for a single candidate, the one with the most votes wins and becomes the MP for that area. 650 MP’s get elected this way.

Nige has resigned as an MP for, uh, reasons so we are having a by-election for just a specific one 650th of the UK.

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