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One year on from the General Election: What we’ve learnt about Westminster’s warped voting system

A year ago this Saturday, the polls opened on the first December election for over ninety years. At the time this felt like an unusual bookend to an unusual parliamentary term, which had culminated in...

Posted 11 Dec 2020

As the crisis developed, we saw countries with more pluralistic political systems being applauded

ERS in the Press – March 2020

These are difficult and uncertain times, with the coronavirus pandemic shutting down most normal activity in politics and across the country this month. Despite the disruption, we’ve been campaigning the most democratic and safe Parliamentary...

Posted 06 Apr 2020

Unpicking the ‘People’s Parliament’: Here’s how many votes went ignored in your region

Last week we revealed how many votes went ignored in December’s general election: 22.6m ballots did not count towards electing an MP. But behind the headline figures are people’s voices across the country being systematically...

Posted 09 Mar 2020

It is no wonder trust in politics is at rock bottom

Ignored and unrepresented: Report reveals how Westminster’s electoral system continues to fail voters

Something is deeply wrong when over 70% of votes count for nothing. That’s what Westminster’s voting system did in December’s election, according to a damning new analysis from the ERS. Of 32 million votes cast,...

Posted 02 Mar 2020

Voters Left Voiceless – The 2019 General Election

For all the talk of December’s poll as a ‘People versus Parliament’ election, it looks like neither won. 22.6 million. That’s the number of votes that didn’t count towards the result in December’s General Election,...

Posted 02 Mar 2020