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AMS 2024 Election Result
Electoral Reform

How the 2024 election could have looked with proportional representation

And the results are out. This election has the biggest difference ever between how we voted and the MPs that...

A vast amount of money has been donated during this general election campaign
Money in Politics

First three weeks of donation data show that money is attracted to power

From the dissolution of Parliament through to polling day, political parties are legally required to report any large sums of...

In 2017 533 extra votes in nine constituencies would have changed the result
Electoral Reform

It should be a scandal that small changes in the vote result in outsize changes in Parliament

Two, rather similar, articles came out today on the likely impact of small swings in the vote on the results...

Using a passport to vote in the UK
Voter ID

Voters will be turned away at the general election for lacking the right ID

Thursday 4th July 2024 will be a historic General Election for all the wrong reasons. For the first time, voters...

Electoral Reform

ERS in the Press – Coverage we’ve secured in the GE campaign

You might have noticed that there’s a general election approaching. Whilst the date of the election may have taken us...

Women in Politics

Candidate selections reflect the barriers for women in politics

Last week, all UK political parties confirmed which candidates they were standing in each constituency for the 2024 general election....

Electoral Reform

Manifestos outside the big two parties: Putting democracy on the agenda

Last week we looked at the sections of the Labour and Conservative manifestos that touched on democracy-related issues. This week,...

Parliament can make or remove any law with a simple majority vote
Electoral Reform

What does a super-majority mean and is it something we should worry about?

In the last week, the current defence secretary, Grant Shapps, has been appearing in the news to warn about the...

Keir Starmer
Electoral Reform

Labour manifesto: Encouraging first steps – but we need to address rock bottom trust in politics

This week we had startling and deeply concerning news about the state of our democracy. A study from the National...

Rishi Sunak
Electoral Reform

Conservative manifesto: Missing pledges to improve our democracy

The launch of the Conservative manifesto yesterday was conspicuously light on democratic policy with little mention by way of reforms...

Were you alive the last time your seat changed hands
Electoral Reform

Over 100 seats haven’t changed hands for 100 years or more

We often hear that politics is unpredictable, that anything can happen in the upcoming election – but the reality is...

16 and 17 year olds already have the vote in devolved elections in Scotland and Wales
Votes at 16

Could this be the last general election that excludes 16 and 17 year olds?

At the Electoral Reform Society, we have long been advocates of extending the right to vote to 16 and 17-year-olds...