Sentences with phrase «av votes»

The method by which AV votes are counted makes it impossible to assess which winning candidates enjoy the genuine support of the majority.

Either Lord Boateng really believes that AV departs from the principle of One Man One Vote and that under AV some votes are counted more often than others — in which case he hasn't given the matter sufficient attention: or he knows perfectly well that both assertions are nonsense, but he makes them anyway, in which case... well, you can finish the sentence.

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If it were up to me it would all go away, because it makes the AV vote harder to win by pissing off the Labour party.»

The AV vote is a Labour Party manifesto commitment, and despite popular belief I make it a point to vote in line with my party's manifesto.

I remain unconvinced that people will be influenced so heavily according to party lines when it come to the AV vote.

Senior Conservatives were jubilant at winning the AV vote and preventing any major lose of councils in England but they were under strict instructions from Downing Street not to be seen celebrating, as ministers tried to prevent the election from destroying the coalition.

The AV vote has been «rigged» to boost the chances of a «yes» vote, according to a former Cabinet secretary.

The AV voting would be simply unnecessary, and the frustration much less acute, if those elected MPs returned by the electorate simply kept to those commitments and promises upon which they were elected.

It looks like those within the Labour Party who want a No to AV vote on May 5th finally have an organisation to take - on Labour Yes.

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.

Much of the blame for the No to AV vote lays with Nick Clegg, Compass and the Electoral Reform Society.

Ed Miliband said he would support the AV voting referendum next May and the Daily Politics mood box has been testing the views of delegates at the Labour conference.

One thing I missed from the ICM poll last night, they asked an AV voting intention question and found the contest neck and neck.

After the disasters of the AV vote and Lords reform, it would be a change long sought by the Lib Dems that he would have delivered.

The big issue is whether the Conservatives needed to offer Nick Clegg a referendum on the AV voting system.

Given the libertarian coup d'etat that Mr Clegg carried out in ditching the official LibDem manifesto and writing whole swathes of the Orange Book into the Coalition Agreement which his own party had previously massively rejected, Nick Clegg can not be really very surprised that the rasberry he got in the local elections and AV vote is going to be reflected within Westminster machine as well.

Former Conservative leader Michael Howard - now Lord Howard - claimed the proposed AV voting system was «nobody's first choice» and was only used by three countries in the world.

Former Conservative leader Michael Howard - now Lord Howard - claimed the proposed AV voting system was «nobody's first choice».

Ed Miliband said he would support the AV voting referendum next May and the Daily Politics moodbox has been testing the views of delegates at the Labour conference.

Not exact matches

As the election is held under the AV system, their second preference votes will be allocated mostly to the two front runners, as those backing their preferred non-Miliband candidate use the system to have a say in the front runner race as well.

He called AV «a dirty little compromise «he will use a yes vote as a sign the country want his new fair politics.If i am right my mp may need the BNP votes to get elected no thanks Andrew Edinburgh

Under AV, you could vote for the Greens first and Labour second.

However, a year ago, after helping to convene a seminar at which I spoke he wrote on Our Kingdom that he was convinced of the case for an (imperfect) compromise around AV: «I am a convert to the idea that the ice - breaker has to be the Alternative Vote (AV), even though it is even more disproportional than FPTP.

Campaigners naively suppose people will vote for it because AV is seen as a better system.

AV is just neither here nor there, proportionality is where any electoral reform would derive its fairness and potentially in time improve the connection between voters and voted for.

Without AV, I don't think the party would've voted for any deal with the Tories, and I suspect both Cameron and Clegg both knew it.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

Yes, it is ironic that the voting system favoured by John Harris and Neal Lawson - AV + - would allow a greater number of parachuted candidates through the top - up route as well as the constituency route.

Labour advocates of AV should focus on the difference between needing to attract the Lib Dems as a party under outright PR, and the votes of Lib Dems under AV.

The ballot was conducted using AV (the Alternative Vote), but Lord Oxford received 155 votes of the 283 votes (55 %), so preferences were not taken into account.

I believe that Alternative Vote (AV) system, where people rank candidates in order of preference rather than selecting only one, has much to commend it.

By the way AV is a fudge of a system but is slightly better than FPTP so I'm backing it until we get the chance to vote for PR.

The campaigns for and against the alternative vote (AV) began today with a battle of the speeches between David Cameron and Nick Clegg.

Instant - runoff voting (or AV as it's known in the UK) is precisely that; instead of having further runoff elections it's done instantly on the basis of collecting your preferences.

To say that under AV some people get more votes than others is disingenuous.

On April 8th 2011 there is a public AV debate with members of the Vote Yes and NOtoAV campaigns, as well as an independent expert at Dartington Hall.

As to losing the vote on AV, Clegg has already ruled this out as cause to leave the Coalition.

Perhaps if you want more representation for Labour, you should contact the PLP and ask why not a single Labour MP voted for changing the system to AV?

FPTP allows people to elected with less than a majority AV shatters the principle of equal voting rights.

Though Labour remained officially neutral, he in a personal capacity supported the ultimately unsuccessful «Yes to AV» campaign in the Alternative Vote referendum on 5 May 2011, saying that it would benefit Britain's «progressive majority».

The Yes to Fairer Votes campaign has announced the first appointments to the team that will lead the call for a «Yes» vote on the Alternative Vote (AV) in next year's referenvote on the Alternative Vote (AV) in next year's referenVote (AV) in next year's referendum.

Besides the fact that AV doesn't do much to stop this (in the safest seats, MPs tend to get big percentages of the vote anyway), it's another continuation of the idea that we can get reforms passed on the back of public anger towards MPs over the expenses scandal.

Incidently, the no vote isn't a rejection of electoral reform, it's a rejection of AV.

(ref earlier, I know AV isn't technically PR, but didn't want to use the phrase «electoral reform» as I'm in favour of early voting, mobile voting etc and not everyone might understand electoral reform in the narrow technical sense)

Interestingly Stuart Weir himself wrote an OpenDemocracy piece saying «I am a convert to the idea that the ice - breaker has to be the Alternative Vote» in June 2008 after a seminar with MPs and campaigners on this issue at which I spoke http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/ourkingdom-theme/stuart-weir/2008/06/20/should-supporters-of-electoral-reform-back-av having written a post which was hostile to considering AV before that http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/2008/04/01/av-is-not-the-solution

Your constituency is Additional Vote (AV), go to 3

Elements of the Conservative party will go demented with fury if England says no but a Celtic yes vote wins it for AV.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

For example, if Labour managed to get its act together, a big «if» I know, and they put an amendment to the voting reform bill designed to introduce AV + on to a referendum question rather than AV, how will the Liberal Democrats vote?