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At school in Ireland, the STV system was explained to us in Civics class
Electoral Reform in Westminster

With STV in Ireland, politicians cannot afford to ignore people

As part of a series on the experiences of voters in the Irish 2020 election, we wanted to speak with...

Lords will see their daily pay rise by 3.1% to £323 per day
House of Lords

Spiralling size and cost of the Lords shows it’s time for an overhaul

The House of Lords has again come under scrutiny this week as the Times reports that peers will see their daily pay...

All the people I know who’ve moved back and forth are very pro-STV
Electoral Reform in Westminster

Voting with proportional representation feels much more meaningful than Westminster’s system

As part of a series on the experiences of voters in the Irish 2020 election, we wanted to speak with...

Electoral Reform in Westminster

Voters dislike disproportionate results – even when their own party benefits

February 11, 2020

As political parties and commentators continue to digest the result of the 2019 general election, one issue that keeps coming...

Newspapers
House of Lords

ERS in the Press – January 2020

Following December’s General Election we have continued to make the case for a fairer, proportional voting system, highlighting the warped...

Electoral Reform in Westminster

Ireland’s TV debates show the difference the electoral system makes

February 6, 2020

On Tuesday the 4th February, ITV’s political editor Robert Peston tweeted: The Irish leaders’ debate is really quite shocking. The...

Keir Starmer Portrait
Electoral Reform in Westminster

Keir Starmer: “We’ve got to address the fact that millions of people vote in safe seats and they feel their vote doesn’t count”

Keir Starmer’s backing of electoral reform puts democracy at the heart of Labour’s leadership contest From one Keir to another,...

The broken Westminster system is at the root of this dissatisfaction
Constitutional Convention

People are rightly losing faith in politics, it’s time for democratic renewal

A new report by the recently established Centre for the Future of Democracy at the University of Cambridge has found...

Parties and third-party campaigners spent around £5.9 million on Facebook
Campaign Regulation

Britain’s campaign laws leave our elections open to fake news and manipulation

December’s election was the third Westminster election in four years. Each one of those has highlighted a growing crisis facing...

A generation in England and Northern Ireland are being left behind
Votes at 16

England, give young people the vote like your neighbours

If you were a 16 or 17-year-old is Scotland, you probably felt quite annoyed at being left out of December’s...

Labour Hustings
Electoral Reform in Westminster

What we learnt from the ERS / Open Labour leadership hustings

Labour’s leadership candidates backed a range of constitutional reforms at Sunday’s joint Open Labour/Electoral Reform Society hustings, as they were...

Because of the AV system voters won’t need to vote tactically
Electoral Reform in Westminster

How do Labour Party leadership elections work?

The Labour Party leadership election formally kicked off this week as nominations for the next leader of the party opened...