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A step closer to the full-time parliament Wales deserves

Success as Labour vote overwhelmingly to increase the...

Welsh Labour members voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to back a...

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A system more suited to a private members' club than our parliament

Two aristocrats have won the right to make...

Just weeks after 70,000 people cast their votes to elect...

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Tactical voting is often presented as the answer, but the truth is it is just a symptom

Proportional representation would end the scourge of tactical...

The losses in Wakefield and in Tiverton and Honiton, where the Liberal Democrats overturned...

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Jersey 2022 even a simplified plurality system will still lead to unfair, distorted results

Jersey’s new electoral system has first outing

Two years ago, the Electoral Reform Society looked at the...

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Polling Station Hedge - ERS

Do all countries have by-elections? Filling parliamentary vacancies...

This Thursday (23rd June), voters in the constituencies of Tiverton...

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Overwhelming majority of UNISON delegates back motion to reject First Past the Post

The UK’s biggest union just passed a motion...

Delegates at UNISON’s National Delegate Conference have just backed a...

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A big victory on Senedd reform

When Ron Davies described the idea of devolution as a...

ERS Cymru
France’s Two-Round system frequently produces highly disproportional results

How do elections work for France’s parliament, the...

Fresh from re-electing Emmanuel Macron as president on 24 April...

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Much more can be achieved to build a Scottish democracy fit for the the 21st Century

ERS Scotland: Our plans for the years ahead

At ERS Scotland we are constantly monitoring the political seas...

Developments at the ERS
We have a chance to create a new Welsh democracy Lets do it properly

Wales can lead the way and deliver a...

Reform of the Senedd has been discussed since its inception....

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How do elections work in Australia?

British voters may have to wait up to five years...

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We can revive local democracy in Scotland

Scottish local democracy can build and strengthen our...

Democracy is the right for people to decide how the...

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