Thanks to the backward First-Past-The-Post voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority in Westminster with only a minority of British votes.
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Unfortunately (in this case), if a party starts to get 30% of the popular vote or somewhere around that, it's going to start winning seats in FPTP elections.