Under the first-past-the-post system used in UK general elections, the person with the most votes in each constituency becomes the MP and candidates from other parties get nothing. Reform UK ...

The UK general election has thrown the spotlight on the electoral system because the result was “the most disproportional on record”, according to Darren Hughes, the chief executive of the ...

at a time when the UK is facing some very significant challenges both in terms of economic well-being and security. The system also means that when a party can win on a minority of the vote ...

Jack Cobb, the director of Pro V&V, told Newsweek via email that the changes approved by the lab relate to ballot boxes, ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Half of Britons (49 per cent) support reform of the voting system and the introduction of proportional representation (PR) — ...

If the 2015 UK general election had been held under ... Under the PR “list” system, electoral constituencies would have to be much bigger in order to have multiple seats to fill ...

UK elections often see plenty of terminology thrown around, and one you might have heard of before is tactical voting. It is a term that is often brought up around major UK elections, in part due ...

A campaign to reform the UK’s voting system would be “more irresistible than Brexit”, Nigel Farage has said. The Reform UK leader made the claim after it emerged that, in 2020, Sir Keir ...