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We should be building barriers to suspicious money, not the ballot box

Electoral Commission chair calls out government on voter...

In a recent, wide-ranging, interview with the Financial Times, John...

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A strong call to better engage with the people of Wales

Constitutional Commission on the Future of Wales’s report...

Last Friday, after two years of work, the Independent Commission...

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Lessons Not Learnt Share

Lessons not Learnt: New report on 2015, 2017...

The last nine years have witnessed three general elections, a...

ERS Report Launch
Across the UK opinion is evenly divided on the issue of right of appeal

First past the post distorts public opinion on...

Last week’s YouGov MRP poll showing Labour on course for...

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Shouldn’t MPs win or lose their seats based on voters changing their minds

Changing boundaries shouldn’t change election results

For the past 30 years, political scientists Colin Rallings and...

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The present political landscape would appear both radically different and depressingly similar to our forebears in 1884

140 years of winning electoral reform

On a chilly evening exactly 140 years ago, a diverse...

Developments at the ERS
Liz Truss appointed one peer for every 1.5 days she served as Prime Minister

The UK’s shortest serving PM hands out peerages...

In the days between Christmas and New Year, the government...

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The benefits of proportional representation for a reformed House of Lords are clear

Which is the best electoral system for the...

Whenever the issue of creating an elected Second Chamber comes...

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At over 800 peers in total, it dwarfs all other second chambers around the world

How many peers are there in the House...

One of the unique features of our currently second chamber,...

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Around 400 seats will see very little, if any, local campaigning from either of the two major UK parties

The Non-Battleground Election: Millions of voters are ignored

Last week, the Labour Party started the process of selecting...

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2023 most read

The top 5 most-read ERS articles from 2023

Every year we have a look through the stats to...

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Only one-in-four think it is OK to hand out peerages in order to parachute people into cabinet

Fewer than one-in-four support prime ministers handing out...

Our recent polling, covered by the Daily Mirror, has found...

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