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

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

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

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

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%.

How UK elections work: First past the post vs proportional representation explained - The election produced some uneven results, with a wide variation between some parties’ seat tally and their ...

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 ...