Voters will be turned away at the general election for lacking the right IDThursday 4th July 2024 will be a historic General Election for all the wrong reasons. For the first time, voters in Scotland and some parts of England will be turned away from polling stations, as...Posted 01 Jul 2024
Voters will be turned away at the local elections for lacking the right IDThursday 2nd May 2024 was a historic local election for all the wrong reasons. For the first time, voters in Wales and some parts of England will be turned away from polling stations, as they...Posted 01 May 2024
Germany’s 2021 election: How Germans voteThis Sunday (26th March), Germany goes to the polls to elect its national parliament – the Bundestag. With Angela Merkel stepping down as Chancellor after 16 years, this election will cause only the fifth change...Posted 23 Sep 2021
Does PR mean coalitions? As New Zealand shows – it’s all down to the votersThe New Zealand Labour party are celebrating a landslide win, with 49 percent of the vote and enough MPs to form a single-party government on their own. This is the first time since New Zealand...Posted 20 Oct 2020
Early voting doesn’t have to mean long queuesTwo news stories stood out this week. As early voting opened in some US states, images of voters queuing all day to vote were greeted as signs of enthusiasm in America but confusion outside, while...Posted 15 Oct 2020
Lebanon’s confessional system keeps change just out of reachJosh Dell is a writer based in London, who has led on democracy projects for organisations including Bite The Ballot and The Politics Project. His work has been published in CityMetric, Left Foot Forward, and The Sunday...Posted 02 Sep 2020
How the 2019 election results could have looked with proportional representationEver wondered how the 2019 General Election result would have come out with a form of proportional representation? The Single Transferable Vote (STV) is a form of proportional representation used in Northern Ireland for all...Posted 13 Dec 2019
What is tactical voting and why is it bad for democracy?In a Westminster election, tactical voting takes place when a voter chooses a candidate whom they wouldn’t normally support, in order to prevent another candidate from winning. For example, if you want to vote for...Posted 12 Nov 2019
Where is proportional representation used in the UK?Westminster’s voting system is well and truly broken. The system with which we elect our MPs is struggling to produce fair and representative results. The 2017 General Election showed that, for the third time in a...Posted 05 Nov 2019
Canada’s election: Last call for First Past the Post?It looks like Justin Trudeau has narrowly secured his second term as Canada’s Prime Minister. But his party lost out on a majority of seats as well as the popular vote. It was a tough...Posted 23 Oct 2019