Election sums
Mr Lewis says that 1.7 million people voted for the SNP and 2.2 million voted for the other parties combined.
That means that 43.59 per cent of those who voted, chose to support the SNP and the combined support of all the other parties garnered 66.41 per cent. Thus the SNP was able to pull off the result that was not supposed to be feasible under proportional representation as envisioned by the Constitutional Convention.
I don’t remember how many other parties participated in the election. Perhaps Mr Lewis would like to inform us?
Douglas Turner
Derby Street
Edinburgh