A system in which less than half decide who runs the country, isn't a Democracy it's manufactured consent

"This isn't even tyranny of the majority, it's tyranny of the minority"

After 9 years of Austerity, the majority of the UK voted against the Conservative party, we are being silenced by a terrible electoral system

The UK is just one of many countries to have a hard right wing government imposed on it, which the majority oppose.

In these countries it is not uncommon for the majority to oppose their "elected" leader

Where do the Majority oppose their "elected" leaders?

Country Opposed their leader Elections resulting in leader with support 54% 24 times out of 38 (since 13th amendment) 56% 1 time out of 20 (since WWII) 61% never in 5 elections (since 1987 Constitution) 62% 1 time out of 17 (2 if you include "outside support")

Why we need change?

What solutions are there?

This is just an overview of solutions, more details can be found here

There are 2 general types of solution

Proportional systems

Name Summary Local Representative Minimum Vote non-Proportionality* MMP Single-Winner Seats + Regional Top-up seats 1 per 1.5 FPTP seats 0-5% 0-10% STV Multi-Winner seats + Rankingsee Preferential 5 over 5 FPTP seats 20%-33% 5-20%

More details here

The above are based on a typical implementation, using the following Examples

*non-proportionality is measured as the % of seats that would be different under a completely proportional system.

Preferential systems

Name Summary Local Representative Wasted Votes Proportional IRV Rank the candidates

if your 1st choice can't win

vote is transferred to 2nd, etc As per FPTP Lower than FPTP No

More details and alternatives listed here, but essentially IRV is the simplest and widest used

Recommendations

While all systems are significantly better than FPTP As Most of the problems that can happen, also happen under FPTP This site recommends the following voting systems

Election Type Recommendation Reasoning Multi-Seat MMP Provides Full Proportionality, with local representation Single-Winner IRV Provides preferential voting

Harder to manipulate than Second Ballot systems

Less time-consuming that Second ballot systems

For per country recommendations, see the recommendations page or pages for

How to make this happen?

See next steps page

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