In a Westminster election, tactical voting takes place when a voter chooses a candidate whom they wouldn’t normally support, in order to prevent another candidate from winning.

The problem with this, is that it encourages people to vote for a candidate or a party whose policy they may not agree with. It can also be hard to work out who is likely to win, and who is the best person to cast a ‘tactical’ vote for. Voters have to second guess the rest of the electorate based on past results and polling.

Tactical voting of this kind is inevitable under our failing first past the post system for Westminster elections. It is a damning indictment of an electoral system that it makes voters change their behaviour to work around its failings.

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