Sentences with phrase «changed electoral systems»

The campaign to change the electoral system likes to call itself «Yes To Fairer Votes».

When you change an electoral system, the party structure changes, form follows function.

But for this to truly work, the country needs to change its electoral system.

Today I'm setting out a plan of action to get all the changes we need delivered in just 100 days — making it possible for MPs to be sacked by constituents, abolishing the House of Lords, getting corrupt money out of politics and changing the electoral system to give everyone a voice.

These were just some of the public responses to the great MPs» expenses scandal, but strangely, changing the electoral system to bring in the alternative vote was not high up the list.

It will be able to change its name, which it intends to do — it will likely become the Welsh Parliament before the 2021 elections — increase or decrease the number of Assembly Members (AMs) elected, change the electoral system used for Assembly elections and reduce the voting age.

The campaign has shown that the mainstream of the Labour Party does not want to change the electoral system for Westminster.

Some reformers hoped the government might redeem itself with a bold move: holding a referendum on changing the electoral system on the day of the 2010 general election.

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Typically there is always something to win for bigger parties by changing the electoral system (e.g. changing the electoral boundaries or introducing an electoral threshold).

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I believe this result settles the debate over changing our electoral system for another generation.»

Taxpayers will be landed with a # 250million bill to change our electoral system if the public votes Yes to reform, researchers warn.

It does virtually nothing to democratise the House of Lords and absolutely nothing to improve public access to the legislative process or change the electoral system.

Not exact matches

The alleged violation of our electoral system might not immediately change US policy on cyber espionage, but it will certainly change the way organizations approach and respond to the immediate threat.

Though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reneged on his promise to change the country's voting system before 2019, his government didn't totally walk away from electoral reform.

Additionally, the election coincided with a provincial referendum on electoral reform, in which the proposed change to a BC - STV system of electing representatives was defeated.

It found that while some Canadians — 17 per cent — are comfortable with the current system, a majority believe that our electoral system needs some kind of change.

You may think that the electoral system is fair enough or not, that it needs to be changed or not, etc., but most of that is a matter of opinion and off - topic to the OP question.

But since the context has changed, and the system is open for much wider critical interrogation, it is entirely appropriate for Stuart to take a stand for the electoral system he prefers.

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 review of the Dáil electoral system was considered in May and June 2013 — the majority favoured minimal change to the basic structures of the Dáil electoral system.

My preferred option is actually, after we get a change in the electoral system, for a new party to form out of elements of both the Lib Dems and liberal Labour, with some of the Greens as well.

There are certainly several examples in Britain where people have rejected change, the most prominent examples include the referendums on Scottish Independence, the Alternative Vote electoral system, and, in 1975, the UK's membership of the European Community.

Nigel Farage suggests the predicted result will boost support for a change in electoral system because it does not deliver on stable government.

Their agenda includes electoral reforms like early voting, a strengthening of the state abortion laws, creation of a single - payer health care system, criminal justice changes like an end to cash bail, passage of the Child Victims Act, enactment of pro-immigration measures like creation of a state DREAM Act and the issuance of drivers» licenses to undocumented immigrants.

This has been shown in many countries, Italy being the most recent and obvious example with their horribly fractured system induced by the only electoral system I think is worse than FPTP changing because Berlusconi created a new system, primarily to benefit himself.

Four women Assembly Members are calling on Welsh Labour to change its electoral college system and adopt «One Member, One Vote»...

Now, either Labour has a huge amount to fear from forthcoming boundary changes (and much - needed reform of the corrupt postal voting system), or Cameron is an electoral genius.

The current electoral system, Is brutal, undemocratic and after boundary changes will be more weighed in favour of the Tories than it is now.

Furthermore, write David C.W. Parker and Caitlyn M. Richter, in the case of the Scottish Parliament, both the electoral system and the change implemented prior to the 2007 election, whereby candidate names were removed from party - list ballots, have an impact on how Members of the Scottish Parliament spend their time and resources.

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.

Israel has a closed list proportional representation electoral system with a single nationwide constituency so, apart from the 3.25 % threshold, changes in seats are pretty much perfectly sensitive to the changes in the share of the vote.

The party is in favour of reform of traditional British institutions such as the Church of England, a change in the electoral system from first - past - the - post to proportional representation, and drug decriminalisation.

But to break the two party monopoly, the electoral system needs to change to a proportional system, rather than the winner take all system now.

«The expenses scandal has caused significant change to the politics of electoral reform regarding some aspects of the system - most notably recall and primaries,» the authors wrote.

«It would not only be wrong, it would be an outrage to try to secure a change to the electoral system for tactical party advantage,» he added.

I think in retrospect we have to accept that we got it wrong when we set up the assembly with a two - tier electoral system that has two kinds of AM, and it should now be changed.

Cameron is seen as ready to trade the security of his Downing Street tenure for changes to the electoral system that will make it harder for the Conservative Party to ever govern alone again.

But he said electoral reform would be a deal breaker — a» change in the voting system» was necessary.

At present not every party is represented on every committee, when there may be only 12 members, and this would not change whether DPR Voting or any other electoral system is used to elect the lower House.

It said it had found a dysfunctional political and electoral system in New York, and that the best way to change that would be to enact public campaign financing without delay.