Misleading Liberal Democrats Bar Graphs

About

Misleading Liberal Democrat Bar Graphs refers to a series of leaflets and online photos which included misleading bar graphs which showed significantly high percentages of Liberal Democrats performance in the United Kingdom in the run up to the 2019 United Kingdom general election.

Origin

Leaflets with the aim of prompting voters to vote for the Liberal Democrats quickly received attention due to their inaccurate figures. The leaflets were proven to be misleading as the party used inaccurate bar graphs which showed huge leads for the Liberal Democrats in polls which showed them overperforming to what they actually were.

On the online pictures and leaflets, they used information from polling aggeration sites Flavible Politics and Electoral Calculus which have been used to predict what results there could be in a general election. On the sites however, they mention that local polling may not reflect polling outcomes from a national percentage.

Reaction

Shortly after some leaflets were released, it quickly gained attention on social media and from the mainstream media.

On Sophie Ridge on Sunday which airs on Sky News, Sophie Ridge interviewed Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson on the misleading leaflets (see below)

Spread

Several people on social media including Twitter started creating fake photoshop pictures parodying the leaflets by making their own (see below).

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