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First past the post

July 2024

  • King Charles III and Queen Camilla in the House of Lords chamber, during the State Opening of Parliament, at the Houses of Parliament, in London, 17 July

    Proportional representation? The House of Lords is the best place to start

  • Predicted seat totals from exit polls displayed on Broadcasting House in London, as polls closed on 4 July.

    There are many routes to electoral reform

  • Woman pours ballot papers on to a table

    ‘Disproportionate’ UK election results boost calls to ditch first past the post

  • A woman pushing a pram looks at her phone next to a polling station

    Rise of smaller parties: key takeaways from voting patterns in UK election

February 2024

  • MPs during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, on 21 February.

    Our broken politics needs a major shake-up, from PR voting to citizens’ assemblies

    Letters: Readers respond to Rafael Behr’s article about fixing a sclerotic political system

January 2024

  • Andy Beckett

    After 14 years of Tory misrule, voters will crave a fresh start. That may be a blessing for Starmer – or a curse

    Andy Beckett
    British politics has been drained of all credibility. The Labour leader could turn low expectations to his advantage – for a time, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

May 2023

  • Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves

    Why first past the post is the last thing we need in British politics

  • Neal Lawson

    There is a way to oust the Tories, and stop them ever rising again. Why won’t we do it?

    Neal Lawson

January 2023

  • Neal Lawson

    Starmer's path to power
    There’s no point Labour winning unless it promises to dismantle our toxic electoral system

    Neal Lawson
    Britain’s first-past-the-post rulebook tilts politics to the right. But the opposition still refuses to back an alternative, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass

October 2022

  • Campfire cooking

    Brief letters
    Cooking up solutions to cost of living crisis

    Brief letters: Bonfire night | Peak problem | Double trouble | Extreme politics

September 2022

  • John Harris

    Truss is on an economic rampage with no mandate. So why is Starmer resisting electoral reform?

    John Harris
  • Jacinda Ardern

    Fairer contests, better outcomes: Labour stands to gain from electoral reform

August 2022

  • Ballot box

    In the UK, even prime ministers who win elections have a dubious mandate

    Letter: From 1945 onwards, no party winning a British general election has gained 50% of the vote, writes Mike Grainger

July 2022

  • The candidates who passed the first round – from top left: Liz Truss, Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman.

    Transferable votes in an election? Surely that’s crazy

    Letters: Alan Rose contrasts the way the Conservatives decide on their leader with their insistence on first past the post when the country goes to the polls

June 2022

  • Andy Burnham

    Why it’s time for Labour to back proportional representation

    Andy Burnham
    Our rotten political system must change – inequality has been hard-wired into our country by first-past-the-post

May 2022

  • Prime Minister's Questions

    Without a voting shake-up, the right is safe in the UK

  • Polly Toynbee

    Today’s elections are the last before the Tories vandalise our democratic rights

    Polly Toynbee

September 2021

  • Neal Lawson

    Keir Starmer made a huge mistake in not backing PR

    Neal Lawson
  • A show of hands during the Labour party conference in Brighton

    Unions vote down local Labour parties’ call to axe first past the post

June 2021

  • A sign outside a polling station.

    Boundary tinkering won’t fix a broken electoral system

    Letters: Forget redrawing constituency boundaries, just implement proportional representation, writes Alan Fowler. Plus letters from Phil Tate and David Nowell
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