Spanish local and regional elections – London’s Singing Organ-Grinder

How many votes did it take to elect your councillor in the 2011 Catalan municipals?

The answer’s somewhere between 11 and 5,016. Time to merge small ayuntamientos?

Reformers attacking the rotten borough system, 1831 (<a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1496247&partid=1&searchText=rotten+borough&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&titleSubject=on&physicalAttribute=on&numpages=10&images=on&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1'>British Museum</a>)

Counting the corrupt

A numerate, corrupt mayor, some innumerate anti-corruption campaigners, and de Tocqueville.

100% of Spanish graduates interviewed (sample size: 1) said this <a href='http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rechentisch.png'>abacus</a> was in fact architect's plans for a bowling alley.