The Reformer

Over nine million are estimated to be missing from the register

Parties can back this simple change today to help bring in the ‘missing millions’

A cross-party group of peers are backing an amendment to improve the accuracy of the electoral register setting out new...

Guernsey

Are Guernsey about to hold the strangest election in the world? 

On 7 October, voters in Guernsey will head to the polls for what is likely to be the ‘strangest [election]...

It’s time for parties to open up about who is running for office

Government must do more to ‘level up politics’ for women and minorities

Despite some gains in the last general election, women and minority groups remain highly under-represented in politics, according to a...

Newspapers

ERS in the Press – September 2020

As the government continues to implement new restrictions to fight the second wave of coronavirus, the cracks in Britain’s political...

There was just one proven case of personation fraud in 2019

Ministers just vowed to plough ahead with a ‘dangerous’ change to elections

The ERS and groups representing elderly voters and BME communities are warning that mandatory voter ID risks pulling up the...

Conservative, Labour, SNP, Green and Lib Dem figures back our calls

Cross-party figures unite to call for transparency in ‘Wild West’ online campaigning

Political figures across the spectrum have backed our calls for reform of Britain’s ‘wild west’ election campaign rules following the...

Paying the price of First Past the Post – Towns Fund millions spent on marginal seats

There is no better way of finding out which voters matter under Westminster’s warped electoral system than looking at where...

Democracy in the Dark Preview

ERS reveals the scale of secretive online campaigning during last year’s election

Democracy in the Dark – our new report commissioned from two of the UK’s leading election finance academics reveals a...

Covid-19 has moved the assembly to the forefront of Scottish government thinking

The Citizen’s Assembly of Scotland can help shape our post-Covid future

Scotland’s first Citizens’ Assembly met last week for the first time since March. Like many social events and workplaces, the...

Labour for a New Democracy

Campaigners unite to urge Labour party to back proportional representation  

A major new project has been launched to encourage the Labour party to back proportional representation. 

Britain’s voter registration system is leaving millions on the sidelines

They’ve been called the ‘missing millions’: over 9 million eligible people in Great Britain are currently not on the electoral roll.  

Aristocrats are guaranteed representation in our parliament

Hereditary peer by-elections have been paused. They should be scrapped entirely

The House of Lords just keeps getting bigger. Following the PM’s appointment of 36 new unelected peers, each week sees...