Sentences with phrase «av voting referendum»

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.

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.

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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.

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?

Australias House of Representatives is elected by the Alternative Vote (AV) system, which will be offered to the British public in a referendum next May.

The Tories may secure a referendum on the alternative vote (AV), although the opposition in the Commons and the Lords makes this highly questionable.

If Labour had won, its referendum would have included questions on whether to elect MPs by the Alternative Vote (AV) system and whether to introduce a fully elected upper chamber in stages.

Given the loss of the AV referendum on the voting system and the deadlock over House of Lords reform, this may be unsurprising.

Crucially, the ComRes poll also found that among divided Labour supporters - who could decide the referendum as the Liberal Democrats are united for AV, while the Conservatives want to keep first - past - the - post - 61 % would vote against reform.

«A strategy that frames AV as a response to expenses is unlikely on its own to secure a «yes» vote in the coming referendum.»

Mr Clegg went on to deliver a passionate defense of AV, the voting system which will be put to a referendum next spring.

They reckoned that their best hope of holding their seats was for the coming referendum on the voting system to produce a majority for the Alternative Vote (AV).

Although Gordon Brown had stuck an AV referendum in the last manifesto, candidates never had to declare how they would vote, and when the moment arrived to show their hands half the parliamentary party turned out to be against.

In the medium term, the Labour Party will be reinvigorated with a new leader and there is every possibility that the AV referendum will result in a «no» vote.

This was offered to them as part of the bargaining process that created the current coalition government, but it was a referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV) rather than full PR.

And for all these reasons I urge you to get out on May 5, vote in the referendum and say no to AV.

Tagged: Alternative Vote Referendum · AV · David Cameron · Electoral Reform · Nick Clegg

One major reason for campaigning for a No Vote in the AV referendum is that a public rejection of AV could seriously disrupt the coalition which is bent on undermining the post war welfare state of the 1945 Labour Government.

They pointed out that the BNP was on the same side as the Tories in opposing a switch to the alternative vote (AV) in the 5 May referendum.

It looks instead like the government will use the constitutional reform and governance bill to pave the way for a referendum within two years of the next election, ie in the next parliament, but just on the alternative vote (AV)-- a system that allows preferences but isn't proportional.

Last night House of Lords vote requiring a 40 % turn out in the AV referendum creates a serious problem for the government.

During the Christmas holidays, the cross-party NO to AV campaign announced the names of over 100 Labour MPs — almost half of the Parliamentary Labour Party — who will be voting no to the Alternative Vote at the referendum in May.

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).

He got his referendum, but only on AV: the weak «alternative vote» even his own side didn't want.

The 2011 AV referendum on the proposal to use the alternative vote system in parliamentary elections is the only UK - wide referendum that has been held on a domestic issue.

The referendum concerned whether to replace the present «first - past - the - post» system with the «alternative vote» (AV) method.

The below letter from William Hague to fellow Conservatives, urging them to help the party ensure a vote against AV in the May 5 referendum, was leaked yesterday to Rupert Read.

The AV and EU referendums failed to go his way, while five years of coalition with the Conservatives diminished his party such that they were wiped out at the 2015 election, with Clegg's seat, on the back of a student vote, angry about tuition fees, turning Corbynite two years later.

As the date of the AV referendum is confirmed, Anthony Barnett looks back to a speech he made, urging the Durham Union to vote for change.

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.

In 2011, motivated by the first hung parliament since the 1970s and encouraged by the Liberal Democrat's part in the following agreement, a referendum was held on the possibility of FPTP being replaced by the Alternative Vote (AV) system.

I will be voting in the referendum for AV because, while it is flawed, it is better than First Past the Post for two good reasons.

The Electoral Reform Society has welcomed the publication of a clear Yes / No question for the proposed Alternative Vote (AV) referendum.

The former Liberal Democrat leader launched a stinging rebuke of the prime minister, as the referendum on the alternative vote (AV) is expected to result in a defeat for voting reform.

Today Mr Prescott went one step further, by demanding Labour voters vote against the introduction of AV and treat the referendum as a vote on the coalition government.

For the first time since YouGov started asking the question, the number of people saying they would vote «no» in the AV referendum was higher than those who would support it.

But asked how they would vote if this referendum were to be held tomorrow, 48 % said they would back AV, compared to 37 % who would vote to keep first past the post.

The deputy prime minister will be keen to see at least some his cherished programme of political reform become a reality, particularly if the flagship referendum on AV results in a «no» vote.

In 2011, former research secretary Richard Mabey produced a paper with Bernard Jenkin MP on the Alternative Vote system [17] «Death of the Conviction Voter - Fairness and Tactics under AV», which was often cited during the 2011 AV referendum debate and was seen as being an influential contribution to the thinking of the «NOtoAV» campaign.

They were late and while we waited, rumours - later confirmed - reached us that the Conservatives were to make a new offer to us to hold a whipped vote in the Commons on an AV referendum, in return for a full coalition.

Danny suggested a referendum on the most modest form of electoral reform - the Alternative Vote (AV), which allowed candidates to be ranked in preference order and required MPs to secure 50 per cent of the vote to be elected - linked to Lib Dem support for the Conservatives» own reform plan, which was to reduce the number of parliamentary seats and to remove Labour over-representatVote (AV), which allowed candidates to be ranked in preference order and required MPs to secure 50 per cent of the vote to be elected - linked to Lib Dem support for the Conservatives» own reform plan, which was to reduce the number of parliamentary seats and to remove Labour over-representatvote to be elected - linked to Lib Dem support for the Conservatives» own reform plan, which was to reduce the number of parliamentary seats and to remove Labour over-representation.

However the Conservatives insisted that the furthest they could go was to consider offering a free vote in the House of Commons on a referendum on AV.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is likely to announce 5 May 2011 as the date for a referendum on voting reform that could pave the way for the introduction of the alternative voting (AV) system.

The added factor of needing a referendum on AV might slow the process a little, but would also likely see the Lords more readily accept the changes to the voting system (not wanting to defy the democratic will of the people).

Liberal Democrats voted for the boundary review that should give the Conservatives up to twenty extra MPs at the next election and in return he delivered on holding the AV referendum.

The announcement that the referendum on the «alternative vote» system will take place next year prompts an obvious question: what difference would AV make?

Cameron prods Clegg towards a voting refendum Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes: Just when you thought the bizarre role reversals of coalition couldn't go any further... I hear that, behind the scenes, David Cameron has found himself privately encouraging a nervous Nick Clegg that he really can win a referendum on AV in May 2011.

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