Sentences with phrase «alternative vote system»

He also urges peers to allow through the bill introducing a referendum for a new alternative vote system for elections to the Commons.

Tories, for their part, claim that Lib Dems are betraying a promise to vote for the boundary review in return for being able to hold a national referendum on introducing a new alternative vote system last year.

The Tories are united against the proposed alternative vote system.

«With just days to go, it is more important than ever that we put aside party differences for the good of the country and that everyone comes out to vote against the unfair and expensive alternative vote system on May 5th,» she said.

«There can be no doubt, the Labour party is making up its mind and it is voting «no» to the expensive and unfair alternative vote system,» said Joan Ryan, director of Labour NO to AV and former vice chair of the party.

Any system which allows voters to express preferences, including Labour's newly embraced alternative vote system, would give all voters the right to have their second and other choices taken into account in the final reckoning.

And David Cameron is to take on his LibDem deputy Nick Clegg — who is urging a Yes vote — to explain why the replacement alternative vote system is «not the right course for Britain».

Referendum bill on electoral reform will allow for a referendum on the alternative vote system.

They claim boundary changes was introduced as a quid pro quo for the May 2011 referendum on electoral reform, in which the public rejected the alternative vote system by a ratio of two votes to one.

The supplementary voting system, a shorter form of the alternative vote system, gives voters the opportunity to mark their first and second choice.

In the case of electoral reform, they were humiliated at the ballot box, as the alternative vote system was rejected by 67.9 % to 32.1 %.

For instance, the firm recently began work with the «Yes to fairer votes» campaign in the U.K., in support of the referendum to adopt the Alternative Vote system for elections to the House of Commons.

(a) Hold a referendum on voting reform, giving the electorate a choice of the following four alternative voting systems: Additional Member System; Closed Party List; Open Party List; Single Transferable Vote.

The Alternative Vote system isn't proportional but it would mean all MPs would have to command a majority and it would mean fewer wasted votes.

Another failure for the Liberal Democrats has been in relation to their pledge to deliver «a fair deal by cleaning up politics», following the 67.9 % vote against the introduction of the alternative vote system in the May 2011 referendum and the absence of the promised elected House of Lords.

Members will cast their ballots under an alternative vote system and the winner will be announced on 16 July.

Last year's referendum on whether the UK should adopt the alternative voting system for general elections cost the taxpayer # 75 million, according to a report out today.

Now the choices between the voting systems advocated by the main parties are distinct: PR for the Lib - Dems, First - Past - The - Post for the Conservatives and for Labour, the Alternative Vote system,» he added.

«Where the alternative vote system is used around the world, it disproportionally reduces the voice of socially marginalised voters.

The research undermines a key approach of the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign in next month's referendum on whether or not to introduce the alternative vote system.

The members will cast their ballots under an alternative vote system and the winner will be announced on 16 July.

Yet he has offered the Lib Dems a referendum on introducing the alternative vote system in which voters rank candidates in order of preference.

In the referendum, the Alternative Vote system was rejected by 67 % to 33 %, and therefore all reforms regarding the voting system were dropped.

In this context, the alternative vote system itself posed particular problems.

You're probably sophisticated enough to vote using the alternative vote system then, of which more in a moment.

On voting reform, some 34 % (41 %) said they favoured PR over the current first - past - the - post system for Westminster, with the Alternative Vote system coming top of the second preferences at 37 % (41 %).

The resounding «No» to the referendum on introducing the Alternative Vote system arguably killed the electoral reform agenda in Britain for at least a generation.

But that's exactly what could happen in our democracy if the country chooses the Alternative Vote system in the referendum on May 5th.

Register a political party that has the following two pledges: a. Hold a referendum on voting reform, giving the electorate a choice of four alternative voting systems to FPP.

Labour leader Ed Miliband praised the values of the alternative vote system at the campaign event:

Nominations close on 3 June, members will cast their ballots under an alternative vote system and the winner will be announced on 16 July.

Controversially, the No campaign has already published advertisements showing a screaming, new - born baby, with the message: «She needs a maternity unit NOT an alternative voting system.»

When initial explorations into voting reform were last made by the late Roy Jenkins, it was shown that, had the 1997 election been held under the alternative vote system, Labour's already huge majority would have gone up from 179 to 245.

In May Mr Clegg must lead his party into the referendum on switching to the Alternative Vote system, his key demand before agreeing to form a coalition with the Tories in May.

On Monday, the Lib Dems had demanded that the alternative vote system for electing MPs be passed by parliament — and that if an election occurred before a referendum, the election would be held under AV.

He promised the biggest shake - up in British democracy for 200 years and the expected referendum on the alternative vote system.

The Conservatives have bitten the bullet of offering the Liberal Democrats a referendum on the alternative vote system and that will clearly be their final offer on voting reform.

This would see up to 85 % of MPs elected under the alternative vote system but on a nationwide constituency basis.

The most extensive analysis of how the alternative vote system would redistribute votes has been done by the academic Lewis Baston.

It's not surprising that they oppose a change to the alternative vote system, since an analysis by the BBC shows that such a system would at the last election have given them 27 fewer seats and Labour 21 more.

The ad depicts a baby, with the caption: «She needs a new cardiac facility not an alternative vote system».

According to Lord Mandelson's controversial new memoirs, during talks with Labour over a possible coalition deal, Clegg's then chief of staff Danny Alexander asked for the alternative voting system to be introduced without a referendum.

Mr Brown said the alternative vote system (AV) would offer voters more choice and give all MPs a «clear and strong mandate», while keeping a link to their constituency.

On electoral reform, the two frontbenches have long been ready to compromise on the alternative vote system, rather than full proportional representation.

«There are no circumstances in which I would have voted for a change to the alternative voting system without a referendum.

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.

And that was why in February last year the doomed Gordon Brown performed his breath - takingly cynical U-turn, announcing after a lifetime's opposition that he was a convert to the Alternative Vote system for parliamentary elections.

Labour has promised a referendum on the alternative vote system.