The House of Commons backed using proportional representation (PR) at general elections in a surprise symbolic vote on Tuesday. Almost 60 Labour MPs supported a plan put forward by Sarah Olney, a ...
The campaign is heating up over whether Yukon should switch to a ranked ballot system for future elections or stick with ...
In American politics, the people are supposed to choose their leaders. However, in state after state, it’s increasingly the opposite: politicians choose their voters. The evidence of democratic ...
Democracy, in the immortal words of President Abraham Lincoln, is a government of the people, by the people, for the people. This pithy description makes democracy a sacrosanct concept that endures ...
With an increasingly polarized Congress and fewer competitive elections, there are growing calls among some election reformers to change how voters elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The former First Minister claimed the new electoral system he helped to introduce will prevent Reform UK from forming a ...
Politics isn’t working for most Americans. Our government can’t keep the lights on. The cost of living continues to rise. Our ...
The proposal for a bicameral legislature was premised on the assumption that the lower house, with 300 MPs, would retain the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system, while the upper house would comprise 100 ...
Washington’s venerable Redistricting Commission process is disintegrating. Partisanship is threatening to draw us into the same gerrymandering we see across the country. However, a simple fix to state ...
California’s congressional districts, like most across the country, operate under a winner-take-all, single-member model.