New research on the chilling effect of voter ID publishedNew research published last month by Dr Tom Barton at Kings College London shows the potential detrimental effect of new voter ID laws on turnout. The research shows that the Voter ID requirement deterred and...Posted 07 May 2025
Friday 11th April should be the last time electors had to actively register to voteThe deadline to register to vote in the local elections on 1 May was 11 April. Last February we estimated that 8.2 million voters were missing or incorrectly registered on the electoral roll across England,...Posted 13 Apr 2025
Electoral administrators call for an overhaul of electionsA fresh call for modernising democracy came last week from the people that run our elections. The Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA) have published a new report, New Blueprint for a Modern Electoral Landscape: How...Posted 06 Mar 2025
A big win for fairer politics: Why Section 106 mattersHow many women stand for election every year? It’s hard to tell. That’s because right now, parties don’t have to publish information on the diversity of their candidates. However, last month, the Minister for Women...Posted 19 Feb 2025
This year’s General Election left millions of voices unheardWe have all heard the outcome of the 2024 general election, the surprises and the predictable outcomes, but digging under the surface there’s a surprising story to tell about the millions of voters who were...Posted 19 Dec 2024
The plans to remove all the hereditary peers are now in motionToday’s the day we’ve been waiting for, plans have been laid for the final 92 hereditary peers to lose their places in the Lords! For over 700 years the House of Lords has contained Peers...Posted 05 Sep 2024
STV is used within the House of Commons, so why can’t we use it for Westminster?On the 4th July an estimated 29 million people voted in the General Election, for the vast majority of us that was the end of our voting in 2024. However, for our newly elected representatives they...Posted 25 Jul 2024
Slow progress as women finally make up 40% of ParliamentThe 2024 General Election saw in a Labour Government and a brand-new cohort of MPs (335 new MPs) elected; but with all this churn how representative is our House of Commons? Before the election we...Posted 10 Jul 2024
What happens when the Lords defeat the Government?The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, allowing deportations to Rwanda for certain migrants who arrive in the UK via illegal routes, completed its passage through Parliament overnight on Monday 22 April, and gained...Posted 08 May 2024
Voters are being treated as guinea pigs in this year’s local electionsToday, the 2nd May, millions of voters will head to the polls to elect more than 2,500 councillors, 37 police and crime commissioners, 10 metro mayors, 1 MP (by-election in Blackpool South) and London Assembly...Posted 02 May 2024