SIR - What are we to learn from Harry Smith’s analysis of the outcome of the General Election? (T&A Letters, May 9).

To any observer from any other country in the world, gaining half the parliamentary seats from just over a third of the vote is tantamount to electoral fraud of the kind we condemn elsewhere.

Though I hate to say it, Ukip are the worst victims having secured just one seat from 3½ million votes so how Mr Smith can say that Labour has been resoundingly thrashed when two thirds of those who cast a vote than for the Conservatives is beyond me.

The only hope for a more balanced make up of parliament is for ‘first past the post’ to be replaced by proportional representation which applies almost everywhere in Europe.

This time round it would have regrettably ended with a Tory/Ukip administration and a beaming Nigel Farage leading 88 colleagues onto the government benches but at least he would have earned his success in a fair and democratic way.

Brian Holmans, Langley Road, Bingley