2024 at the ERS: Our year campaigning for changeEach year we write an Annual Report which looks back at our achievements across the last 12 months, and explains how our team have campaigned towards securing our vision for a democracy fit for the...Posted 03 Dec 2024
#ERSLive – Pursuing Parity: Examining Gender Quotas Across Electoral SystemsFollowing the publication of our new report Pursuing Parity, we want to share the findings with you in a discussion with the report author Thea Ridley-Castle and ERS Chief Executive Darren Hughes. Diversity of representation has...Posted 14 May 2024
Pursuing parity: New report examines gender quotas across different electoral systemsThroughout history, the political landscape of the United Kingdom has been predominantly shaped and governed by men. The struggle towards gender parity across the United Kingdom has been fought tirelessly throughout the 20th century. Women...Posted 08 Mar 2024
Lessons not Learnt: New report on 2015, 2017 and 2019 electionsThe last nine years have witnessed three general elections, a nationwide referendum and no less than five prime ministers. At times our politics has felt chaotic, and the output of the Westminster electoral system has...Posted 23 Jan 2024
Unfinished Business: New report shows routes to an elected Second ChamberReform of the House of Lords is both hugely popular with the public and very long overdue. Yet in any serious discussion of how to achieve reform, the same questions come up: What about Commons...Posted 11 Dec 2023
The 2022 Welsh Local Elections and the case for STVOn May 5th 2022 voters went to the polls in Wales to elect councillors for all 22 local authorities. These were not the only elections held that day; Northern Ireland held an Assembly election and...Posted 15 Nov 2022
The Power of Preferences: STV in Scottish Local ElectionsMuch talk of the need for electoral reform focuses on Westminster and the goal of a proportionally elected House of Commons. But while the UK Parliament, and almost all of England’s elections, are still held...Posted 26 Apr 2022
Democracy Made in England: Where Next for English Local Government?In the context of the changing nature of UK governance, England remains an anomaly. While the centres of power in the rest of the UK have shifted away from Westminster over the last two decades,...Posted 09 Mar 2022
Here to Stay: Two Decades of Proportional Representation in BritainThe 6 May 2021 was a milestone for the campaign for fairer votes in Britain. The date marked the sixth set of elections to take place for each of Great Britain’s devolved elected institutions –...Posted 31 Jul 2021