Sentences with phrase «new alternative vote system»

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.

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One of the desirable qualities of a voting system (according to Kenneth Arrow) is independence of irrelevant alternatives — the introduction of a new candidate shouldn't change the winner unless it's to that candidate.

The new system Mr Johnson favours is known as Alternative Vote Plus and was first suggested by the Independent Commission on Electoral Reform, led by Lord Jenkins, in 1998.

«A new system like the Alternative Vote will improve the incentives to vote and remove many of the barriers inherent in the current system,» he argVote will improve the incentives to vote and remove many of the barriers inherent in the current system,» he argvote and remove many of the barriers inherent in the current system,» he argued.

35 days: introduce new laws to allow a referendum to be held on electoral reform — the alternative vote - plus system proposed by the late Lord Jenkins — that would be held on day 100.

If the new boundaries are implemented, the «alternative vote» system will be used for all future elections to the House of Commons.

The new Government has said it will hold a referendum on whether to replace our current voting system, first past the post, with the Alternative Vote, which allows voters to express more than one preference.