Sentences with phrase «of electoral reform»

On the divisive issue of electoral reform, he pledged to support the «yes» campaign.

However, the chances of electoral reform in the next parliament are close to non-existent.

I write as a supporter of electoral reform who can see plenty of merit in coalition governments.

I could not say that I would never support some form of electoral reform, in any circumstances, but I think we have seen all too clearly the downside of coalition government.

I have been in favour of electoral reform for a long time.

The blockchain project is part of a wider package of electoral reforms to strengthen instruments of direct democracy (pdf).

Advocates of electoral reform have argued the new system will force MPs to «work harder» because they will need to broaden their efforts beyond their core vote.

At this point in a discussion, the result of the AV referendum is often raised by opponents of electoral reform.

The effect of electoral reform and a more proportional system, would be to create a different kind of parliament in a post expenses world, she claimed.

The idea of an electoral reform referendum on election day was an attractive one.

The fourth Labour government also began the process of electoral reform.

However, the remarkable thing is that the defeat of electoral reform will not weaken the coalition government as much as we might have assumed six months ago.

Labour will lose the next election and we will hear nothing more of electoral reform.

It is no closely guarded secret that most proponents of electoral reform wanted to see some form of proportional representation (PR) on the table in the upcoming referendum.

There are, they were just not represented under first - past - the - post but, because of electoral reform, they are 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.

At one level, the death of electoral reform is historic.

I have been a supporter of electoral reform since I first came across the issues, certainly a year or two before the 1992 election, when I was 18.

MPs sat until well into the evening to discuss the merits of electoral reform.

If that's the theory, what about the practice of electoral reform.

Just considering this fact, it is likely that many of those first exposed to the prospects of electoral reform in 2011 will be more open to consider alternative methods in the future.

For Labour, the issue of electoral reform may become pressing.

A negative result in the AV referendum would be presented in the media as an out - right rejection of all forms of electoral reform.

The truth is that those in favour of electoral reform had a chance to secure change in 2011, but they blew it.

It's a paradox for the committed supporters of electoral reform, who are also often the strongest advocates of tactical voting.

It happened again this year with a package of electoral reforms, including early voting.

And they're right to want certain kinds of electoral reform: finding ways to limit the influence of corporations (without stomping on free speech) would be a very good thing.

He suggested the prime minister had had a «belated conversion to the cause of electoral reform which he has so successfully and personally obstructed for over a decade».

As Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has since confirmed to the House of Commons, there was no guarantee of electoral reform from New Labour.

Both candidates agree that the eventual aim was to get the party into a position where it can be in a coalition government again, though both have ruled out entering into a coalition without a guarantee of electoral reform from their governing partner.

The issue of electoral reform for the National Assembly is back on the agenda after the Secretary of State for Wales indicated she may change how AMs are elected.

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 %.

Incidently, the no vote isn't a rejection of electoral reform, it's a rejection of AV.

The party lost some 700 councillors, and, more cruelly still, a once - in - a-generation chance of electoral reform at Westminster with the rejection of the AV referendum.

A group of electoral reform activists and elected officials on Tuesday called on a panel that's currently reviewing the City Charter to put a so - called instant runoff voting proposal up for a public vote this November.

To start, Tony Blair reneged on his 1997 promises of electoral reform as his weighty majorities were too good to lose.

In May 2011, with Liberal Democrat dreams of electoral reform freshly crushed in a referendum, Vince Cable attacked the Conservatives as «ruthless, calculating and thoroughly tribal».

Gov. Cuomo, who has feuded with de Blasio on a host of issues, also proposed a host of electoral reforms, including public financing of elections, early voting and same day voter registration, as part of his State of the State address in January.

Opposition leader Mr Raila Odinga, whose legal challenge to the election results led to the vote being nullified, withdrew from the new election, saying the process was not credible because of the lack of electoral reforms.

I fear little in the way of electoral reform can work until this financial roadblock is removed.

Cantab83: I think you are right about the interdependency of electoral reform for the Commons and reform of the Lords.

Medvedev's proposals are part of a wider programme of electoral reform, including the re-introduction of gubernatorial elections, which were abolished in 2005.

Quite frankly I'm getting a bit sick and tired of hearing people like Tom Harris MP telling the rest of us that electoral reform is «an issue for half a dozen Guardian readers in [my] constituency.»

Unfortunately, the Guide dates back to the first wave of electoral reform in the UK in 1999, but the Democratic Audit website also includes lots of useful material on recent voting system debates and controversies.

Corbynism is basically a sense of lots and lots of people having waited in vain for somebody to come out and say there is an alternative to neoliberal capitalism, saying «fuck this we are going to do this ourselves», and rather accidentally, managing to take over major a political party through a court of electoral reform,» he says.

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.

Never make the case for the EU and its attendant loss of national sovereignty; never go into an election talking of electoral reform; never remind voters of the environmental damage associated with their lifestyles.

Despite the perversities of the outcome, a real prospect of electoral reform will only come if the 2020 election again produces a hung parliament where minor parties may be in a position to press for reform.