Sentences with phrase «for electoral reform»

The coalition deal utterly destroyed support for electoral reform.

The case for electoral reform is stronger than ever.

We have been long - time campaigners for electoral reform and have been working harder since the expenses crisis.

As part of this, it can enact its own proposals for electoral reform, including changes to the electoral system and introducing votes at 16.

The road ahead is not easy for electoral reform activists, but it is worth travelling.

This report gives guidance for electoral reform and possible future assistance.

If voters become accustomed to this system - which is likely - it will be easier for electoral reform supporters to bid for a new referendum in the future.

There are growing calls for electoral reform in Italy to prevent hung parliaments in the future.

Whatever the referendum result, it will not end the campaign for electoral reform in the UK

It gives the Conservatives, who are very anxious about demands for electoral reform, a sitting duck to shoot dead.

A recent Democrat & Chronicle story on the push for electoral reforms in New York noted that the measures face «an uphill climb in the Republican - controlled Senate, where the GOP has long raised concern about opening the door to voter fraud.»

Arguing for electoral reform in isolation from a full bloodied constitutional settlement that includes the UK's national question was far too limited and asked to fail.

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Indeed, can't I equally argue that Neal Lawson risks narrowing his coalition of support for electoral reform by suggesting that the existence of a national campaign on PR means postponing or vetoing any consideration of party reform issues on their merits (where he seems to argue that the principle would be one he would support, were it not for this context)?

Although debates about electoral reform since 2009 have centred on proposals to replace «first - past - the - post» with the alternative vote (AV), there are numerous other options for electoral reform in the UK.

The landmark survey commissioned by the Broadbent Institute is the first study of its kind and size to measure Canadians» attitudes about voting system design and preference for electoral reform.

It was the acrimony surrounding the campaign for the electoral reform referendum which ended the coalition's prolonged honeymoon.

Matthew Elliott, who played a key role in defeating Nick Clegg's plans for electoral reform in the No to AV campaign in 2011, will serve as chief executive.

Primaries are an incredibly weak substitute for electoral reform.

Conservatives say the dramatic shakeup of Britain's electoral map, which could hand the party around a dozen more seats at the general election, was a quid pro quo for the electoral reform referendum, which took place in May 2011.

Perhaps if talk of Labour becoming more like a movement comes to fruition, we may see the popular grassroots call for electoral reform translated into policy.

I believed at the time it was signed that the coalition deal wiped out support for electoral reform because it meant its core left wing rump, which felt it would ensure more left wing government in future, suddenly felt that wasn't true any more.

also, your point @ 100 that support for electoral reform fell off a cliff last year couldn't be further from the truth.

@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 - blowing.

And, apart from the Liberal Democrats, who has ever made the case passionately for electoral reform that could meaningfully devolve power to people beyond London?

My fellow campaigners for electoral reform refuse to engage with me because I was in Ukip.

This evening you can attend a rally in Westminster's Methodist Central Hall, organised by the Vote for Change coalition, with music by Billy Bragg to stir your stumps for electoral reform.

If, as Downing Street is arguing, the Tory election campaign was as good as it could have been, then the enthusiasm for electoral reform within Cameron's circle makes more sense.

[78] In July 2005, a new law for electoral reforms was approved which prevented electoral gerrymandering by cutting the number of electoral districts from 25 to 5.

And even if cooperation didn't, after all, mean ministerial rovers for a handful of Liberal Democrats, or a bum on a seat round the cabinet table, still it seemed for a few heady months that it could at least deliver a timetable for electoral reform and, at some point in the middle distance, that long - awaited referendum.

Ukip will now fight for electoral reform, arguing that its voters should have greater democratic representation.

Video: In Sheffield Hallam and High Peak, John Harris makes the case for no clear winner and the chance for electoral reform

It is logical for a coalition fighting one last first - past - the - post election to seek a mandate for electoral reform (though how far the Lib Dems reciprocating would benefit Labour is partly a tactical judgement about how their vote would divide).

There are clear necessities for electoral reform, improving local democracy, tackling climate change, and re-balancing the inequalities in society which will require more than the Labour party to bring about.

The paper says the election presents a «huge opportunity» for electoral reform with a Lib Dem government or coalition ushering in proportional representation, which would provide a true mirror of Britain's political landscape.

Gripping a can of lager and muttering darkly about the foreigners on the east side of town, Pete Johnson makes an unlikely champion for electoral reform.

Away from the streets of Margate, there are signs that the British public also feels that the election results have made the case for electoral reform undeniable; 30,000 people signed a petition supporting change to the voting system in the first five hours after it was launched at midday last Friday — 100 people a minute.

Advocates for electoral reform say that the outcome has again exposed the limitations of the first - past - the - post system, prompting urgent calls for a change to the way Britain votes.

Dr. Afari Gyan (EC Chairman): Prof. Prempeh says the Electoral Commission not to blame for the electoral reforms delay

The prospect of coalition revived hopes for electoral reform and the Lib Dems were offered AV without plebiscite by Brown and a binding referendum on AV by Cameron.

His backing for electoral reform - which would mean scrapping the first - past - the - post system on which Westminster MPs are elected in favour of some form of proportional representation (PR)- came as John Denham, the skills secretary, also let it be known that he favours considering a number of «radical steps», including electoral reform.

The findings have important implications for electoral reforms.

@democraticaudit @katieghose @electoralreform Is it not time instead to campaign for electoral reform before the next GE?

The decades - long hope of his party for electoral reform was Clegg's number one demand.