Currently, there are 14 independent MPs in the House of Commons, which might seem to suggest Independent candidates can win under First-Past-The-Post (FPTP). But these MPs are only independent because they were suspended from their...
Posted 01 Nov 2023
Next year the Senedd will mark a quarter of a century since its establishment. For many of those 25 years it has been apparent that the Senedd is too small. At just 60 members the...
Posted 18 Sep 2023
Last week in the Senedd, First Minister Mark Drakeford announced the Welsh Government’s plans for legislation for the next year. This covered eight new bills which the government hopes will become law. There was a...
Posted 06 Jul 2023
This ERS Cymru and Labour for a New Democracy fringe event will look at how a UK Labour government can reform the UK’s democracy and learn lessons from innovative changes to elections led by the...
Posted 21 Feb 2023
This week is Welcome to Your Vote Week, a campaign by the Electoral Commission to spark campaigners across the UK to speak to students in schools and raise young people’s political awareness. Amidst a global...
Posted 02 Feb 2023
Since elections were devolved to Wales in the Wales Act 2017 there have been a lot of changes for Welsh democracy. We’ve seen the extension of the franchise to 16 and 17 year olds and...
Posted 31 Jan 2023
Make Welsh local politics work for people.
Posted 15 Nov 2022
On 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 Electoral Commission report on May 2022’s local elections in Wales, published yesterday, highlights that the extension of the franchise is only the first step in ensuring the participation of new groups of voters in...
Posted 22 Sep 2022
Calling time on Westminster: why our electoral system drags the UK down. ERS Director of Policy and Research Dr Jess Garland will be speaking at Labour for a New Democracy and Politics for the Many’s...
Posted 15 Sep 2022