Time for a Registration RevolutionToday is National Voter Registration day, launched by our friends at Bite the Ballot. Voter registration is an integral part of our democracy. If you’re not registered you can’t vote. Electoral boundaries are now also drawn based...Posted 05 Feb 2016
Leanne Wood: We need a Welsh Representation of the People ActThis is a guest blog by Leanne Wood, leader of Plaid Cymru. The opinions expressed here are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Electoral Reform Society. This week the Electoral...Posted 04 Feb 2016
Iowan Explanation – The raucous in the caucus explainedNo election grabs the world’s attention quite like an American election does. This is largely because whatever else might be the case, the US is still the world’s superpower. But there is also something inherently...Posted 01 Feb 2016
Q&A with Katie Ghose: "We need a democracy fit for the 21st century"The interview below was first published by the online magazine Blue & Green Tomorrow. Katie became Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society in 2010. A campaigner and barrister with a background in human rights law and...Posted 27 Jan 2016
5 Myths About the Scottish Lobbying BillThis is a guest post by Pete Mills from Unlock Democracy In the first week back after Christmas, MSPs debated a Bill to introduce a lobbying register designed to let ordinary people know who is...Posted 25 Jan 2016
Scotland needs a stronger Lobbying BillRemember the phone-hacking scandal? It seems long ago, but we shouldn’t forget how much we learned about the ways big private interests try to influence policy. The Leveson Inquiry dug up all sorts of stories...Posted 07 Jan 2016
Our top ten most read blogs of 20152015 was the busiest year ever for the Electoral Reform Society blog, with monthly readership over double the level we had in 2014. As we get stuck in to 2016, we thought we’d look back...Posted 04 Jan 2016
Jonathan Reynolds MP tried to introduce proportional representationThis blog is a guest post from Jonathan Reynolds MP. Jonathan delivered this speech in the House of Commons on Wednesday 16 December as a motion for leave to bring in the Representation of the...Posted 18 Dec 2015
It’s time 16 and 17 year olds got the voteLast month saw a big victory for campaigners for a fairer franchise: the House of Lords supported giving 16 and 17-year-olds a vote in the EU referendum. Votes at 16 is now in the Bill. But...Posted 04 Dec 2015
Putting PR in ParliamentUPDATE, December 3: The Bill has now been rescheduled and will be heard on Wednesday 16th December. —- It’s not an opportunity that comes up very often, so this is an important one: this Wednesday,...Posted 30 Nov 2015