The Reformer

Polling Station

2017 General Election Results

While Labour achieved a nearly proportional result, getting just over 40 percent of the seats on 40 percent of the...

It’s time for Westminster to join Scotland in shunning First Past the Post

First Past the Post elections are like trying to peel potatoes with a chainsaw. For much of the UK, people have come...

Darren Hughes

We have a chance to revitalise British democracy – I look forward to leading the push

On Monday I began my role as Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society – the world’s longest-standing pro-democracy group. I join...

Wales tears down barriers to democracy as England fortifies them

Last week Wales has shown just what devolution can do: allow new ways of doing democracy. On Tuesday the Welsh...

mixed group of people

Welsh Voices

The sad truth is that nearly 20 years after devolution the majority of people in Wales still don’t vote in...

World Cafe

Building a More Local, Local Democracy in Scotland

Local democracy in Scotland is too distant from the towns and villages it is supposed to represent.

Hereditary by-election

The results come in for the UK’s most bizarre and elitist election

Baron Vaux of Harrowden (or Richard Hubert Gordon Gilbey) has won a seat for life on the basis of 16...

young voters

Citizenship education paves the way for votes at 16

With Wales looking to equalise their voting age with Scotland for local elections at 16, we asked our work experience...

Citizens Assembly on Brexit blog

It’s time to get the public involved in Brexit

The way people talk about ‘Leavers’ and ‘Remainers’ is enough to make you think they have always been at loggerheads...

The House of Lords is in the midst of yet another hereditary peers’ by-election

By Darren Hughes In case you’re not aware of this bizarre constitutional anomaly, in 1999, the House of Lords Act...

As I move on from the ERS, I know that we can win

By Katie Ghose, Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society Today is my last day at the ERS. What a...

2017 was the first online media election. Let’s look at what this means for democracy

According to recent research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2017 was the first general election where...