Sentences with phrase «on the alternative vote»

He promised the biggest shake - up in British democracy for 200 years and the expected referendum on the alternative vote system.

The referendum on the Alternative Vote in 2011 was highly specific in placing one voting system before the public.

The 2015 election looks set to deliver yet another questionable result, putting to an end ideas the 2011 referendum on the Alternative Vote killed off electoral reform.

As for the suggestion that people will vote for change, regardless of substance, in preference to the status quo, I refer you to the recent referendum on the alternative vote.

Similarly, the result of the referendum on an alternative voting system in 2011 required no change, but had it been otherwise, it was beyond doubt that change could have been achieved only by legislation passed by Parliament.

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.

Nick Clegg confirms 5 May 2011 will be the date for a vote on the alternative vote system - but he admits to Channel 4 News that AV is «a little short of proportional representation» as Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports.

Our latest figures on voting intention in the referendum on the Alternative Vote show a significant narrowing of the No campaign's lead, with the... (Comments: 0)

Peter Mandelson has joined the fray as the struggle for Labour voters» support on the alternative vote intensifies.

Both the «no» and «yes» to campaigns hosted cross-party events as the referendum on the alternative vote looms ever closer.

The «new politics» has given us a Conservative minister for constitutional reform, committed to seeing a referendum on the alternative vote through Parliament (TP, Sept).

But history played out differently when the Conservative party offered a more attractive deal to the Lib Dems on the alternative vote.

Indeed, when Danny Alexander, Chris Huhne, David Laws and I met Adonis and the rest of the Labour team, they wouldn't even commit to supporting legislation on alternative voting, despite Labour being the only party that had such a proposal in its manifesto.

This is a variant on the alternative vote.

It looks instead like the government will use the constitutional reform and governance bill to pave the way for a referendum within two years of the next election, ie in the next parliament, but just on the alternative vote (AV)-- a system that allows preferences but isn't proportional.

To accuse these MPs of hypocrisy, as some have done — most notably the so - called Labour Yes camp led somewhat surprisingly by Ben Bradshaw who, as Jonathan reported, seems to have undergone a damascene conversion on the Alternative Vote — is to misrepresent the original manifesto commitment.

On electoral reform, the two frontbenches have long been ready to compromise on the alternative vote system, rather than full proportional representation.

The bill introducing a referendum on the alternative vote finally made its way through the Lords last night.

In 2011, former research secretary Richard Mabey produced a paper with Bernard Jenkin MP on the Alternative Vote system [17] «Death of the Conviction Voter - Fairness and Tactics under AV», which was often cited during the 2011 AV referendum debate and was seen as being an influential contribution to the thinking of the «NOtoAV» campaign.

Miliband has, though, offered to share a platform with Clegg on the alternative vote referendum, the next fascinating dilemma for centre - left politicians.

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In one of the least noticed changes, Clegg has been given responsibility for political reform including a bill enabling a referendum on the alternative vote for electing the Commons.

Unlike many other polls asking about voting intention in the referendum YouGov's tracker on the Alternative Vote referendum starts with text briefly summarising what First Past the Post and Alternative Vote actually are.

If anyone has dipped into the debate on the Alternative Vote over the last three weeks, they will probably have picked up one thing: the No campaign say AV will cost # 250 million, the Yes campaign disagree.

The next two full parliamentary weeks will commence the process towards a referendum on the Alternative Vote electoral system, fixed term parliaments and a radical redrawing of constituency boundaries.

The Yes to Fairer Votes campaign has announced the first appointments to the team that will lead the call for a «Yes» vote on the Alternative Vote (AV) in next year's referendum.

Our latest figures on voting intention in the referendum on the Alternative Vote show a significant narrowing of the No campaign's lead, with the Yes and No campaigns now virtually neck and neck.

With tricky political challenges ahead — the Oldham and Saddleworth by - election on 13 January; votes on control orders, the scrapping of which was a Lib Dem priority; the local and Scottish and Welsh elections; the referendum on the alternative vote in May — do they make a merit of creative tension and disagreement from now on, because it is impossible to cover up, or do they seek to put a lid on it?

Instead, reformers are meant to be cheered that at least Labour's next manifesto will now include not only the detailed Lords reform plan contained in that draft bill but also a pledge for a referendum on the alternative vote system of election for the Commons.

The inter-party agreement between the coalition partners proposes a wide ranging series of constitutional reforms, the most important of which are fixed - term parliaments and a referendum on the alternative vote electoral system, to be held in May 2011.

The legislation is intended to set the referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV) system in stone but it had a separate, seemingly academic, measure tagged onto it: equalising the size of constituencies.

Referendum bill on electoral reform will allow for a referendum on the alternative vote system.

Indeed they made clear that they couldn't guarantee that all Labour MPs would even vote for a referendum on the Alternative Vote.»

The fate of the government's proposed referendum on alternative vote (AV) hangs in the balance in the Lords today.

The reforms were designed to change the nature of electoral representation (the referendum on the alternative vote), alter the composition of both Houses of Parliament (boundary review and House of Lords reform), and to reduce the power of the Prime Minister to time elections.

The Lib Dems will spend the next five years as little more than the puppets of an ideologically - driven Thatcherite Conservative Party, dazzled by the prospect of a handful of cabinet posts and a referendum on the Alternative Vote.

A referendum on the Alternative Vote is currently planned for 5 May 2011.

The Tories may secure a referendum on the alternative vote (AV), although the opposition in the Commons and the Lords makes this highly questionable.

Then came the referendum on the alternative vote.

The actual text of the agreement says: «We will whip both Parliamentary parties in both Houses to support a simple majority referendum on the Alternative Vote», so while it does prevent a PR option in the same question, it doesn't preclude separate questions being asked, such as:

Having failed to achieve a change in the voting system for the House of Commons — with the loss of last year's referendum on the alternative vote — Nick Clegg's party is determined to push ahead in order that his party can boast having forced a major constitutional change on the country as a result of being in government.

It was the price they demanded, this time last year, for allowing their junior coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, a referendum on the alternative vote.

A referendum on the Alternative Vote was the most extraordinary of many surprising parts of David Cameron's «big, open and comprehensive offer» to the Liberal Democrats.

Labour's leader - in - waiting, Alan Johnson, yesterday restated his proposal for an election day referendum on the alternative vote plus system — the one recommended a decade ago by a commission headed by Roy Jenkins, but then shelved by the Blair government.

For every Scottish independence referendum, there are three or four plebiscites which fail to spark a real debate (the referendum on the alternative vote is a case in point).

The Electoral Reform Society has welcomed news of a convincing vote in the Commons in favour of a referendum on the Alternative Vote.

This was offered to them as part of the bargaining process that created the current coalition government, but it was a referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV) rather than full PR.

The Electoral Reform Society has criticised 40 Conservative MPs who have signed up to an Early Day Motion (EDM) proposing changing the date of the forthcoming referendum on the Alternative Vote.

Both parties will whip their Parliamentary Parties in both Houses to support a simple majority referendum on the Alternative Vote, without prejudice to the positions parties will take during such a referendum.