š³ļø The local election results show that the need to reform the voting system "has never been greater," says APPG member @wendychambld.bsky.social
Business Questions to the Leader of the House this morning š
Local elections confirm it: weāre a fiveāparty system. Yet FPTP means seats donāt match votes and stability isnāt guaranteed. Govtās restoring Supplementary Vote for mayors, so why keep FPTP for Westminster? The Representation of the People Bill is a start, but FPTP must go. #FairElections #PR #FPTP
A warning to all political parties from Sir John Curtice:
āIf your vote goes down and becomes more geographically spread, the system will murder you."
This week we were in Parliament for @appgfairelections.bsky.social event about the local election results. Read our blog š
šYesterday in Parliament, our Chair @alexsobel.co.uk spoke about our amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform.
š We're pleased that 70 MPs have now signed it!
š Read more here: fairelections.org.uk/over-60-labo...
Interesting event tonight on electoral reform in parliament with @appgfairelections.bsky.social with Sir John Curtis, Tim Bale and @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social.
We've also analysis we are releasing next week that illustrates how perilous disinfo will be for democracy in our new five party system.
š§µ Our May 7th elections analysis was published today.
The findings are stark:
- 41.4% of wards were won by by less than 5%
- 398 wards were decided by less than 1%
- 9 wards were decided by a 1 vote
Election ads will now be increasingly decisive.
reformpoliticaladvertising.org/after-the-vo...
. @justinmadders.bsky.social MP (Labour) speaking at our recent event with the @appgfairelections.bsky.social Preventing Disinformation in UK Elections about the urgent need to get rules in place for election advertising.
Listen to the whole event here.
reformpoliticaladvertising.org/3556-2/
āļø 111 MPs have already signed @alexsobel.co.uk amendment to the Representation of the People Bill, calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform.
āļøThis makes it the most-backed amendment to the Bill.
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š„ 113 MPs have now signed the amendment tabled by @alexsobel.co.uk calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform
ā ļø First Past the Post is broken. Ask your MP to sign amendment NC31 of the Representation of the People Bill
"We're having situations where parties are winning seats on 25% of the votes."
As the failures of our voting system are becoming more clear than ever, the case for Proportional Representation is attracting more and more media attention.
Here's @patrick-pme.bsky.social on Radio 4 š
