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
Local politics in Wales isn't working. It's time for STV.
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
The debate about the UK’s constitutional arrangements has come to the fore in recent years. We’ve seen a Scottish referendum, with another possible next year, the UK’s exit from the European Union and more recently, the...
Posted 18 Aug 2022
In May’s local elections, four areas in Wales trialled a different way of voting – allowing people to cast their vote before election day. As well as polling stations being open on the Thursday 5...
Posted 05 Aug 2022
This year we were delighted to be joined by leading academic Professor Ailsa Henderson from the University of Edinburgh and Mick Antoniw MS, Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution in Wales. The day started with...
Posted 12 Jul 2022
When Ron Davies described the idea of devolution as a ‘process not an event’ back in 1999 he had little idea his words would come to describe a quarter of a century of reform in...
Posted 16 Jun 2022
Reform of the Senedd has been discussed since its inception. When it opened in 1999 it had just 60 members, no government function and limited powers. While the powers of the Senedd and the function...
Posted 18 May 2022