Single Transferable Vote or Venetian Vote?
Pah, who needs the Single Transferable Vote when you can go for the Venetian electoral system. … Read the full post »
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Constitutional and political reform
Read my posts about constitutional, electoral and political reform in the UK.
10 lessons for winning or losing a referendum
Back in July 2010, I first blogged about an excellent post from Neil Stockley on how to win a referendum. He was writing before the AV, Scottish Independence and Brexit referendums, which makes very impressive how well his list of 10 key factors now read after we’ve seen how they were all conducted and concluded. … Read the full post »
Great news for electoral reform as STV set to spread further in public elections
Liberal Democrat Newswire #109 is coming out in a few days, and here’s a short extract from it… … Read the full post »
VIDEO: Single Transferable Vote (STV) explained
On Thursday 4 May, voters across Scotland will use the single transferrable vote (STV) voting system to cast their vote in the Scottish council elections. … Read the full post »
Why Manchester Gorton is so important for the Liberal Democrats: Liberal Democrat Newswire #91
Liberal Democrat Newswire #91 came out last week, with a special focus on the May elections: the by-election in Manchester Gorton and Lib Dem prospects in the council contests. … Read the full post »
Don’t call an early election, the Lib Dems will beat us warn Conservative MPs
West Country Conservative MPs lobbied Theresa May against calling an early election, fearing losing their seats to the Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »
Welsh councils look set to get the power to choose to switch to STV
The way councillors are elected could depend on the local authority they are in, if proposed changes by the Welsh Government were given the go-ahead. … Read the full post »
Tim Farron: Turmoil makes case for voting reform
The letters page of the Yorkshire Post has been bursting with debate on the need for electoral reform in the light of Brexit and the divided state of our country. … Read the full post »
Support for electoral reform at record high as voters also call for early general election
Support for electoral reform is at a record high in Britain according to the authoritative data from the British Social Attitudes survey. … Read the full post »
How the Tories could lose their Parliamentary majority, courtesy of the police and the voters
The optimistic Liberal Democrat may be wondering now if the party might go into 2020 with rather more than 8 MPs. The pessimistic Liberal Democrat will remember how the party fared the last time there was a hung Parliament… … Read the full post »