The move reverses changes made by the last Conservative Government, which was accused of seeking to "stitch up" elections in ...

Closing loopholes barring election protests doesn’t address Canada’s need for election reform, the Longest Ballot Committee ...

The Tories introduced FPTP for mayoral and PCC elections in 2022, a change seen as an attempt to boost their chances of ...

As Labour reverses Tory changes to the rules governing some local elections, John Rentoul looks at what it could mean for ...

REGIONAL mayors will get new powers and be elected by the “preferential” voting system again under the government’s new ...

On Thursday 10 July, the Labour government announced that as part of its English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, Supplementary Voting (SV) would be restored for electing metro mayors and ...

By contrast, FPTP systems cause minority citizens to fall into a state of learned helplessness, leading to political apathy. The UK and US, for example, had turnouts of less than 60%.

In the 'First-Past-The-Post' system of elections, the candidate who gets the maximum valid votes wins that constituency of the assembly or parliament. This concept is based on the analogy of the ...