Back in 2015 we published Deal or No Deal which looked at public attitudes to political finance following the failed cross-party talks on implementing the Committee on Standards in Public Life ...
Following Andy Burnham’s historic pledge that Labour will have a manifesto commitment to change the First Past The Post (FPTP ...
In recent weeks, The Scottish Government has opened a major debate about the future structure of local government. As part of ...
The Prime Minister made history last week announcing that he intends to fight the next election with a manifesto commitment ...
In a new study, researchers at Cambridge University have ranked Ireland among just seven countries worldwide where more than 75% of citizens are content with democracy. This high level of satisfaction ...
The Electoral Reform Society has long campaigned for the House of Lords to be abolished and replaced with a new modern, fairly elected democratic second chamber. We also want to see the one ...
A constituency link means MPs represent local areas and are directly accountable to those areas for their continued careers. Voting systems can have stronger or weaker constituency links. In some ...
The scale of the impact that voter ID had on the recent general election has been laid bare today by a report from the Electoral Commission, which makes for concerning reading for those who care about ...
With Nottinghamshire, both electoral formulas produce different results but are, unsurprisingly, all more proportional than the actual First Past the Post result. However, different allocations aren’t ...
The dust is settling on the results of the 2024 UK general election. We have a Labour government for the first time since 2010, with a majority of seats almost as big as Tony Blair’s landslide of 1997 ...