[apillar]

Yeah, that had me scratching my head in disbelief. UKIP had close to 1 million votes and no seats, yet some Irish party only had 160,000 votes and 8 seats. I guess it's all location, location, location. Under our system in the US, I guess if we had any viable 3rd parties you could see the same thing. In theory if the 3rd party ran strong against Republicans in Republican leaning districts and strong against Democrats in Democrat leaning districts, but just not quite strong enough to win but strong enough to place 2nd with the opposition party a distant 3rd, it would be farfetched but possible that the 3rd party could beat both republicans and democrats in the popular vote nationwide, but not win one congressional seat.

[Big Bureaucracy]

The UK elections show what would happen if we have third party diluting the vote in November. The time to push for real conservatives is now in the primaries.

[GeronL]

The UKIP was spread out thin. The Irish Party was in N Ireland and thats it.