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How we could make the House of Lords gender equal overnight

The move to a proportional electoral system for the Lords could also allow for gender balance to be baked in as a legal requirement.

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What elections should the next government reform?

The biggest reform would be changing the voting system at Westminster, the ERS advocates for introducing Proportional Representation for the House of Commons, specifically Single Transferable Vote (STV).

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What Electoral reforms have there been since 1997?

While the need for reforming Westminster’s First Past the Post (FPTP) voting system is getting clearer every day, outside Westminster the process of reform has been slowly, but surely, going in the right direction.

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How did Denmark get proportional representation?

Denmark today is home to one of the most proportional voting systems in the world, but, for a long time, elections to the Danish Folketing took place using First Past the Post.

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Coverage we've won

Our research work was heavily used to justify the Observer's editorial on the government’s pointless voter ID scheme.

We'd like to thank all our supporters in England who wrote to their local papers about the government's voter ID scheme. We've had letters in over 40 local papers including the Brighton Argus, Western Morning News, Oxford Mail, Colchester Gazette, Lancashire Telegraph, Southampton Daily Echo and many more.

Our issues in the news

OpenDemocracy - Labour must learn from its old mistakes and commit to fairer elections
The Guardian - Holyrood’s presiding officer calls for ban on all-male committees
The Times - Sunak’s secret meetings about the Lords — and why he thinks it needs reform
Nation.Cymru - Welsh Labour to debate further devolution from UK party
Municipal Journal - Voter ID data may fail to offer accurate information

~~Safe~~ Marginal Seat of the Week

Following the news that Lee Anderson has picked up a second job at GB News, here is how Ashfield voted in 2019.

Bury South

Ashfield

62.6% Turnout
182nd Smallest Margin of Victory
19th Smallest Share of the Vote Needed to Win

Explore the 2019 General Election in Ashfield →

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