Sentences with phrase «defeat of electoral reform»

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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.

For social democrats, it means reflecting on how institutional forms can be entrenched within the fabric of society, rather than swept away immediately in the wake of electoral defeat as may be the fate of Labour's social reforms in the United Kingdom.

@Joe (54): Yes, the hypocrisy of the Beeb in explicitly calling the result a defeat for electoral reform WHEN THEY HAD REFUSED TO CALL AV ELECTORAL REFORM THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN ITSELF was truly sickening and mind -electoral reform WHEN THEY HAD REFUSED TO CALL AV ELECTORAL REFORM THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN ITSELF was truly sickening and mind - blreform WHEN THEY HAD REFUSED TO CALL AV ELECTORAL REFORM THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN ITSELF was truly sickening and mind -ELECTORAL REFORM THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN ITSELF was truly sickening and mind - blREFORM THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN ITSELF was truly sickening and mind - blowing.

The Liberal Democrats lost the referendum on the alternative vote electoral system and proposals for House of Lords reform were defeated in the House of Commons.

In the wake of the electoral reform referendum defeat Lib Dems were faced with the bitter reality of a complete failure to achieve one of their biggest constitutional reform goals.

The hard - fought referendum on electoral reform was defeated by a huge majority of voters on a turnout of above 40 %, effectively ending the issue for a generation.

While some have suggested that the proposal's defeat in the polls was the last nail in the coffin of electoral reform, others have interpreted it as the first step in a longer journey.

Political failures like Common Core, Portfolio Management in New Orleans, electoral defeats (like those recently in Tennessee), and repudiations of the entire ed reform agenda by Black Lives Matter, the NAACP, and the DNC despite extensive courting by left - leaning ed reformers suggest that ed reform might benefit from learning a thing or two about how politics works.