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Burnham faces crunch vote on ditching first-past-the-post system within days

Nearly 100 Labour MPs are backing a demand for the establishment of a 'national commission' on electoral reform.
New Scientist

Why first-past-the-post voting is fundamentally flawed

ONE person one vote is the mantra of democracy. And as Americans prepare to elect a new president this year, they’ll be weighing up who to cast their precious vote for. Yet giving each citizen just ...
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Is Labour about to scrap 'first past the post'? Some 88 of party's MPs demand electoral reform

Some 88 Labour MPs - more than a fifth of the party's presence in the House of Commons - have so far backed a bid to set up a body to investigate electoral reform. They are among a total of 166 ...
Opinion

Andy Burnham should rip up our undemocratic first past the post system – even if some in Labour disagree

Rearguard reactionaries may try to block the idea of a national commission into proportional representation, but we should want more not less democracy, says Neal Lawson, director of Compass ...