The top 5 most-read ERS articles from 2025As the year draws to an end, we’ve had a look through the stats to see which of our articles were the most popular with you, our supporters. So if you missed them the first...Posted 17 Dec 2025
First Past the Post lets people with fringe views slip through the netBritain’s First Past the Post system was designed for a two-party age. One that pretty much everyone agrees we no longer live in. Yet even when most people voted for one of the two big...Posted 13 Nov 2025
Electoral reform takes centre stage at Labour Party conferenceElectoral reform took centre stage, literally, at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this year. Andy Burnham was the lead speaker at the rally calling for reform of Westminster’s voting system, hosted by colleagues in...Posted 15 Oct 2025
Support for proportional representation hits record high according to new researchThe National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) has, this week, published the latest findings from their British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey. The survey has been conducted almost every year since its launch in 1983 and...Posted 25 Jun 2025
What voting system does the UK use for general elections?Voting systems are the methods we use to elect representatives, like MPs or local councillors. They lay out rules about the way votes are cast and counted. Which system do we use in general elections...Posted 11 Feb 2025
Current Parliament ‘least represents how the country voted of any in history’, MPs warnLast week saw MPs warning that our current Parliament “is the one that least represents how the country voted of any in history”, as the government came under increasing pressure to bring in a fairer...Posted 06 Feb 2025
How would proportional representation work in the UK?Proportional Representation (PR) is the idea that seats in parliament should closely match votes cast in an election. A system that’s perfectly proportional would mean that if a political party received one third of the...Posted 16 Jan 2025
The top 5 most-read ERS articles from 2024As the year draws to an end, we’ve had a look through the stats to see which of our articles were the most popular with you, our supporters. So if you missed them the first...Posted 18 Dec 2024
New polling finds proportional representation still much more popular than First Past the PostEvery six months or so, since November 2019, the pollster YouGov have been asking the British public the following question regarding electoral reform. Some people support a change in the British voting system to proportional...Posted 11 Dec 2024
A System Out of Step – New report on the 2024 General ElectionToday we have published our in-depth report on the 2024 General Election, A System Out of Step. The General Election in 2024 was not only the most disproportional election in British electoral history, but one...Posted 10 Dec 2024