Where is our Conservative government?

Here's an interesting set of figures. In the 2005 general election Labour won 286 of the 529 English seats at Westminster with a 35.5% share of the vote. The Conservatives won 194 seats with a 35.7% share of the vote.

So somehow, the political arithmetic of the first past the post system worked in such a way as to give Labour a majority of English seats, despite getting less votes than the Conservatives. Is this really representative democracy?

Of course, had we a PR system, neither party would have a majority so the chances are we would have had a coalition. On PR, an English parliament would have 189 Conservative MPs, 187 Labour and a sizeable 121 Liberal Democrat. Now as a Conservative supporter, I have no wish to see the Liberal Democrats in goverment, but if the people vote for a hung parliament, then then that's their will and I can live with that. What I can't accept is that a single party getting 35.5% of the vote can walk away with 54.1% of the seats and claim to have a mandate to govern from the English people.