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Australian Senate reforms need to go further to...

Ill-thought-out plans have a habit of coming back and biting...

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Voter ID Required

Local elections: How voter ID trial could undermine...

Here’s something you might not know about Thursday’s local elections:...

Current Affairs Commentary

Conservative MPs back proportional representation, arguing First Past...

MPs from across the spectrum made the case for reforming...

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Uncontested seats mean thousands of voters will be...

Next week, on Thursday, 2 May, voters in many parts...

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Too late for a wake-up call?

How does the Welsh Conservative Party reflect and represent the...

ERS Cymru
Election Cancelled

Democracy cancelled: How parties have captured hundreds of...

Large parts of England are effectively democracy deserts, with hundreds...

Current Affairs Commentary

Ministers can’t let themselves of the hook when...

Last week the government launched a consultation into tackling ‘online...

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Votes are chewed up by the meat-grinder of Westminster’s voting system

Why A General Election Won’t Solve The Brexit...

One piece of news got buried last week. While Labour...

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If you vote in your first election, you’ll probably vote for life

In a Snap Brexit Election, 16 and 17...

Young people are refusing to be ignored – the recent...

Current Affairs Commentary

ERS in the Press – March 2019

Brexit might be dominating the news, but the rolling constitutional...

Current Affairs Commentary

Binary indicative votes were never going to achieve...

This is an expanded version of a letter from our...

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House of Lords

While MPs debate our democratic future, another aristocrat...

On Wednesday – while elected MPs debated Britain’s future –...

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