Labour now backs proportional representation for executive elections. Next stop: PR for Westminster The Labour Party has scrapped First Past the Post voting for its National Executive Committee elections, meaning constituency representatives will now be elected using the gold standard of PR: the Single Transferable Vote. Posted 02 Jul 2020
More evidence that under Westminster’s warped voting system, swathes of Britain can be written off New research has highlighted once again just how damaging Westminster's warped voting system is to our society. Posted 23 Jun 2020
The government accepts votes need to ‘count equally’. Now let’s get on with making it happen On Monday night, MPs debated the need to reform Westminster's one-party-takes-all voting system. Posted 09 Jun 2020
Labour decision on proportional representation for executive elections due “Labour shouldn’t model its elections on Westminster’s broken system, but on the values they want to see enacted." Posted 21 May 2020
Keir Starmer: “We’ve got to address the fact that millions of people vote in safe seats and they feel their vote doesn’t count” Keir Starmer’s backing of electoral reform puts democracy at the heart of Labour’s leadership contest From one Keir to another, support for electoral reform is growing. Labour Party Leadership frontrunner Sir Keir Starmer this morning... Posted 31 Jan 2020
9 things you need to know about the 2019 General Election You probably heard a lot about the number of seats parties won (and lost) in December’s General Election. What was less prominent was just how poorly the results reflected how people actually voted. The ERS... Posted 24 Dec 2019
How the 2019 election results could have looked with proportional representation Ever wondered how the 2019 General Election result would have come out with a form of proportional representation? The Single Transferable Vote (STV) is a form of proportional representation used in Northern Ireland for all... Posted 13 Dec 2019
What is proportional representation? Parties from across the political spectrum are lining up against Westminster’s voting system and calling for proportional representation, but what does that term mean? There are lots of different ways to decide who gets to... Posted 06 Dec 2019
Local elections: How voters in England were cheated by a broken voting system Local democracy in England and Wales has long been under strain – with contests often seeing dismally low turnout, or indeed no contest taking place at all. But new research from the ERS adds fresh... Posted 30 Jul 2019
Four ways Westminster’s politics needs fixing this Democracy Week Monday marks the start of the first ‘National Democracy Week’ – the government’s initiative to encourage democratic participation. It has been established on the premise that “regardless of who we are or where we are... Posted 29 Jun 2018