Sentences with phrase «av electoral system»

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By the time he goes to the country again he needs House of Lords reform set in stone and civil liberties reinstalled, with AV acting as the electoral system used to judge his achievements.

Without other reforms AV will be no more than a form of palliative care for our electoral system.

The alternative vote (AV) electoral system would be used, where voters rank the candidates in order.

We were given the opportunity to adopt the AV system in a 2011 referendum, yet it was decisively rejected, with 68 % of voters opting for No on a 42 % turnout, in part the result of the abject failure of electoral reform advocates to craft a convincing case in favour of change.

And yet he's the one has the most to gain from the electoral system he called a «miserable little compromise,» in most seats and whenever AV delivers another hung parliament.

Unfortunately, Gordon Brown's miserable announcement on electoral reform (a referendum on the non-proportional AV system, after the next election, which presumably will be canned as soon as the Tories take office) had served to puncture everyone's enthusiasm, and apparently fill the room with a mixture of disappointment and fury.

For me, thinking about AV and electoral reform made me realise properly, for the first time, how much the voting system dictates how we go about our democratic politics — especially in relation to marginal constituencies or marginal wards.

In 2007 Baston looked at 256 opinion polls, and at the election results that would have been produced by three electoral systems: first past the post, and two AV scenarios — one in which the Liberal Democrat votes went to the Tories and Labour, and another in which the Lib Dem second preference votes went to Labour.

Preferential voting systems (AV and STV) Some electoral systems focus of the choice of the candidate rather than the party, asking the voter to express first, second, third etc preferences.

We now know the date for the referendum when the British public get the opportunity to decide whether we change from our traditional first - past - the - post (FPTP) electoral system to the Alternative Vote (AV).

The Coalition Agreement committed the present government to four major pieces of constitutional and electoral reform: a referendum on the AV voting system, the equalisation of constituency sizes, an elected House of Lords and five - year fixed - term Parliaments.

(While Jenkins is excellent as analysis, the weakness of Jenkins» own AV + scheme as advocacy was to try to do everything in one place - the electoral system for the Commons - whereas the debate is a different one if we can have a more pluralist constitution with many more checks and balances).

But I do think that an electoral system which necessitates cooperation between parties (which AV does, as do various PR systems) would be one important supporting stimulus to some of the other changes - eg open primaries - which Anthony suggests.

If Conservatives could get a majority of cross-bench peers to block changes to the electoral system, then it would at least impede the introduction of AV + for General Elections.

«AV is a little short of proportional representation» Interviewed on Channel 4 News, Nick Clegg told Jon Snow the government was bringing two things together: giving people a say on whether they want a different electoral system, and secondly, making sure that your vote is worth the same value, wherever you live.

In the IPPR's own words, it gave participants «the chance to take part in a mock AV ballot, using their alternative preferences» and then «asked people a number of detailed questions about their understanding of electoral systems and their concerns about the strengths and weaknesses of these systems».