As the year draws to an end, we’ve had a look through the stats to see which of our articles were the most popular with you, our supporters. So if you missed them the first time around, here are our top 5 most-read articles of 2025!
From giving us unrepresentative parliaments, to causing chaos across local and national elections, it’s undeniable: our voting system is broken. First Past the Post needs to be scrapped – and replaced with the fair, proportional system of STV. In this article, we explain exactly why.
There are a variety of possible PR voting systems including the Single Transferable Vote (STV), which is our preferred electoral system. In this article, we ask what could voters expect to see if PR – specifically, the Single Transferable Vote – is introduced in the UK?
On election night in 2024, the headlines celebrated a Labour landslide. Crowds cheered, pundits predicted a bold new direction, and the idea of a strong majority government dominated the conversation. But as the confetti settled, a quieter question lingered: how many people actually voted for Labour, and what does that mean for the stability of the government?
After announcing his planned resignation in January this year, Trudeau said that failing to enact electoral reform was one of the biggest regrets of his nearly decade-long tenure as Prime Minister. In this article, our Senior Research Officer, Ian, questions how and why this failure occurred and what lessons might it have for us in the UK?
If there were a general election tomorrow, who would form the next government? It sounds like a simple question if you have access to the latest polls. However, the reality is very different. In our most read article of the year, we argue that we should be able to look at a poll and have a reasonable sense of how the country’s votes would translate into seats.
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