Sentences with phrase «post voting system»

It seeks to replace the first - past - the - post voting system with one of proportional representation, advocating the single transferable vote.

Perhaps unfairly, Westminster's first?past - the - post voting system still makes it very hard for new parties to break through at general elections.

The following is a list of the countries currently following the first - past - the - post voting system for their national parliaments.

Gordon Brown has briefed the Cabinet on planned constitutional changes which could see the first - past - the - post voting system scrapped in favour of alternative vote (AV).

Communists in France in the 1950s As I understand it, France was not using the first - past - the - post voting system at the time, but I would be keen to know if you thought that this informed the discussion in some way.

Or is this result a signal that Scottish voters want more radical reform, a change to the first - past - the - post voting system perhaps or even a complete restructuring of the UK along federal lines?

The first past the post voting system tends to favour a two - party system.

But under the First Past the Post voting system, the net impact of that will be a big heap of so what.

I live in Canada and both UK and Canada have what we call a «first past the post voting system».

Shadow Defence Secretary Clive Lewis said that under the first past the post voting system, Labour will struggle to form a government without the backing of other left - leaning parties.

If «strong and stable» has been the motto of parliament's first past the post voting system, June 5th put an end to that myth once and for all.

As a major carrot to attract Lib Dem support, Mr Cameron offered an all - party committee of inquiry on political and electoral reform to look at the possibility of changing Westminster's first - past - the - post voting system.

It is the latest of a series of inroads on the first past the post voting system; already in elections for the Scottish parliament, the Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies and soon the election of a new London authority, proportional representation has become the chosen method of voting.

IPPR director Nick Pearce comments on his thinktank's report attacking the first - past - the - post voting system:

The Yes To Fairer Votes campaign's Jonathan Bartley comments on today's IPPR report attacking the first - past - the - post voting system:

The first past the post voting system used in the United States greatly favors the two large, established parties, but that's not the main reason the Libertarian party can't get traction.

People should bear that in mind when it comes to next May's referendum on whether to ditch the first - past - the - post voting system.

If AV falls, the Coalition looks to tumble with it, since the Liberal Democrats will surely find a way of leaving the Government (and the Tories - with their detestable first - past - the - post voting system).

Labour's Shadow Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, has called for a return to first - past - the - post voting system in the Welsh assembly elections and is meeting with Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan today to discuss the matter.

[34] Kawczynski is a keen supporter of fox hunting [35] and advocates keeping the First Past the Post voting system.

I certainly find it very odd to hear them claim that the first - past - the - post voting system «gave us the Iraq war» and then prescribe a change which would have given Tony Blair an even larger majority...

It was in this spirit I watched this evening's debate in the Commons on the government's proposal for a referendum to replace the current first past the post voting system with the alternative vote, a system under which the votes of the last candidate on the list are re-distributed until one candidate has a majority.

Below is a letter I have just sent to all MPs regarding the proposed changes to our electoral system and inviting them to join the all - party group which seeks to defend the First Past The Post voting system.

In a multi-party landscape, a first - past - the post voting system with single - member constituencies will tend to produce governments which enjoy only minority popular support.

Our current First Past the Post voting system is failing us.

A damning report on the first past the post voting system has been released by ippr.

or organise protest marches, seeing how they have remained the only party committed to defending the current dysfunctional, disproportionate first - past - the - post voting system.

The prime minister wants to replace the first - past - the - post voting system and replace it with an «Alternative Vote» where people would rank candidates according to their preference.

[163] After the 2015 general election, in which UKIP took a lower proportion of seats than votes, Farage called the first - past - the - post voting system (FPTP) «totally bankrupt», [164] although Farage said: «I completely lost faith in [FPTP] in 2005 when Blair was returned with a 60 seat majority on 36 per cent of the vote, or 22 per cent if you factor in low turnout.»

An especially sensitive issue within the coalition is the referendum on whether the first - past - the - post voting system should be replaced with the alternative vote.

Under our first - past - the - post voting system, the party is likely to end up with 50 of Scotland's 59 seats.

New Canadian governing party: «2015 will be the last federal election under the first - past - the - post voting system.»

A whole generation now of political analysts and reformers have pointed out to Labour that the first past the post voting system becomes incredibly unstable in any multi-party context, and your best bet is to change to proportional representation before you get overtaken.

The major selling point of the Dashboard in 2015 was providing context for a voting choice constrained by the First Past the Post voting system.

Mayors work within combined authorities, with cabinets made up of council leaders — all of whom are indirectly elected through a broken First Past the Post voting system.

the first past the post voting system becomes incredibly unstable in any multi-party context, and your best bet is to change to proportional representation before you get overtaken.

She also spoke about the relevance of the first past the post voting system with more parties in the field, and TV election debates where she has not been offered a seat in any of three line - ups planned by the BBC, ITV, Sky and Channel 4.

From 1885 until it was replaced by the Derbyshire Dales constituency in the 2010 General Election, it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

As AV, despite being a change to Britain's first - past - the - post voting system, was not a proportional system, the group held a consultation with those who signed its petition and its social media supporters.

In the following year's General Election, the Alliance gained 25 % of the vote, only slightly behind the Labour Party, but because of the first - past - the - post voting system, it won only 23 out of 650 seats.

For 29 MPs, opposition to scrapping the first - past - the - post voting system is a matter of raw political survival, an analysis by The Independent has found.

Ministers are battling to get legislation through Parliament this week that would allow a referendum on scrapping the first - past - the - post voting system.

Although elections to the US House of Representatives use a first - past - the - post voting system, the constitution requires that seats be «apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers» — that is, divvied up proportionally.

In this, the EU referendum is similar to the UK's Alternative Vote referendum in 2011, in which voters were asked if they wanted to replace the first past the post voting system with the «alternative vote».

GCSE Citizenship - First Past The Post voting system.

We are committed to ensuring that 2015 will be the last federal election conducted under the first - past - the - post voting system.