LSE professors were instrumental in electoral design and reform in the UK at the city, town, borough and national levels. A voting system was needed to elect the newly created post of the Mayor of ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. A major cross-party group of MPs has warned that the electoral system is “unrepresentative” and potentially “dangerous”, ...

Reform UK's Richard Tice says British public is 'absolutely raging' at Labour after by-election win Instead it’s been, most commonly, Labour versus Reform, sometimes the Tories trying to compete with ...

There has been a mixed reaction in Britain to the government's announcement that it will lower the voting age from 18 to 16 before the next national election. The Labour Party administration says it's ...

In any properly functioning democracy, gaining 33.7% of the vote would be seen as a defeat. But at last year’s UK general election, that same result saw Labour win a huge parliamentary majority. Delve ...

Nigel Farage has called for Commonwealth citizens to be banned from voting in British elections. The Reform UK leader said that only naturalised British citizens should be allowed to vote, while ...

In a speech to members in Sunderland, the Clacton MP said the May 7 polls were a ‘referendum on our entire political class’.

It is hardly surprising that Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, should have indicated at a Left-wing rally in London on Tuesday that introducing proportional ...

A leading pollster has told SNP supporters their regional vote may not translate into seats. He suggested pro-independence supporters could get ...

Richard Buxton in his letter dated January 31, in response to Andy Haldane’s op-ed “Has Britain become ungovernable?” (FT Weekend, January 17), proposes compulsory voting as a way to restore public ...

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Nigel Farage will warn that the UK's electoral system is 'sinking towards Third World status' following allegations of so-called family voting in this week's Manchester by-election. In a speech, the ...