The Reformer

Nobody can look at these examples and think our system is working

90% of seats on less than half the vote? That’s England’s local democracy

With nearly all the 2023 local election results declared, the First Past the Post system used across England has once...

Were you stopped from voting

Voters across England will be turned away from polling stations today for lacking ID

May 4th 2023 was a historic local election for all the wrong reasons. For the first time, voters in England...

Forty-six councillors will be elected without a single vote being cast

Elections Cancelled: 90,000 denied any say in local elections

Following the publication of candidate notices for the May 2023 English local elections, it is clear that the scourge of...

Voter ID petition hand in

Nearly 119,000 signatures handed to No 10 calling for voter ID u-turn

Campaign groups handed in nearly 119,000 petition signatures to 10 Downing Street this week, calling for the government to think...

Local Elections: Your Questions Answered

Local Elections: Frequently Asked Questions

In the run-up to the May local elections we often hear the same questions being asked by concerned voters. We...

voter ID means that 2068745 UK citizens could be turned away from polling stations

With just weeks to go awareness of voter ID remains worryingly low

With less than six weeks to May’s local elections, the problems with the government’s rollout of their disastrous rollout of...

Just 7% support Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list

New polling shows 61% oppose Boris Johnson’s resignation peerages

Our new polling has found that just one in 14 people (7%) support Boris Johnson stuffing more peers into the...

Every major party uses something like the Alternative Vote to elect their leader

Why do so many parties use transferable voting for their leadership elections?

The 27th of March sees the announcement of the results of the SNP leadership election. As we wrote a few...

Men make up around 72 per cent of peers

How we could make the House of Lords gender equal overnight

It is a quiet scandal that 105 years after women first won the vote they are still grossly under-represented in...

Making it harder for people to vote is an expensive business

Why will the government’s voter ID scheme cost us up to £180,000,000 a decade?

Making it harder for people to vote is an expensive business. The government’s impact assessment of the Elections Act suggested...

Postbox

Will I need photo ID to get a postal vote?

Slowly, the country is waking up to the fact that the government have changed the rules for who can vote....

We have the opportunity to encourage first-time voter participation

Welcome to Your Vote Week – Raising young people’s political awareness

This week is Welcome to Your Vote Week, a campaign by the Electoral Commission to spark campaigners across the UK...