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A nice constitutional crisis: Labour win on a smaller share of the vote than the Tories
A National Conversation For England —
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Imagine this election scenario: the Tories win the largest share of the vote across the UK, but Labour are returned to office with a small majority. It could happen: the Conservatives actually have to win by a margin of around 9% to secure an overall majority, owing to the absurdities of the First Past the Post voting ...5 days ago -
Search for 18 ”ghost MEPs” ─ Scandal in the making?
Grahnlaw —
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Some EU member states failed to provide for the election of the additional members of the European Parliament at the European elections in June 2009, and the member states as a whole neglected to start the treaty amendment process as a separate exercise to enter into force with the Lisbon Treaty, as proposed in the ...1 week ago -
Oral arguments scheduled for: Democratizing the Electoral College Civil Action
OntheWilderSide —
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Excerpts from the actual civil suit at the readmore…Asa Gordon is Chair of the DC Statehood Green Party Electoral College Task Force and Executive Director of Douglass Institute for Government. Gordon’s civil suit concerning reform of the Electoral College will have oral arguments in the United States Court of ...2 weeks ago -
Labour plans to guarantee referendum on electoral system reform
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
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• AV could replace first-past-the-post Westminster system • Re-elected government would hold vote by October 2011 Gordon Brown is to introduce a law to guarantee that a re-elected Labour government would hold a referendum within two years on abolishing Britains first-past-the-post system for elections to the ...3 weeks ago -
Ministers urged to promise early ballot on voting reform
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
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Cabinet supporters of an early referendum on reform of the voting system for the Westminster parliament will tomorrow renew their efforts to commit Labour to include an early ballot in legislation certain to be passed before next years general election. If ministers at the cabinets democratic renewal committee (DRC) ...4 weeks ago -
Lord Roberts writes … Our Electoral System – not fit for purpose
Liberal Democrat Voice —
Authority: 139
The need to reform the Electoral System was underlined by a number of us on the Liberal Democrat benches in the House of Lords.The possibility of it being included in the Queen’s Speech was always minimal but we dared to hope.. We are still living in an age with a system that goes back 200 years. We are trying to ...4 weeks ago -
UNDP Consultant Advocates Some Proportional Representation in Nigeria
Net News Publisher —
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As Nigerian legislators are working to review and amend the Nigerian 1999 constitution, a UNDP consultant, Professor Sam Egwu, has advocated the inclusion of proportional representation in the constitution to cater for special interests of minorities, women and the disabled. Delivering a paper, entitled ...5 weeks ago
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