Mike Crockart
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Scotland Bill
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Tuesday 15th March 2011
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Mike Crockart (Edinburgh West) (LD)
If the hon. Gentleman’s argument were correct, surely local government elections would have had immensely large turnouts when first past the post was used for them, and the turnout would have dipped immensely when they changed to the single transferrable vote. That was obviously not the case—there were poor turnouts before the change.
Mr Davidson
Turnouts have dipped since the change to proportional representation, as I understand it. The situation seems quite clear.