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Reform the electoral system to achieve a more representative system.

Submitted on Monday 26th October 2015

Rejected on Tuesday 27th October 2015

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Reform the electoral system to achieve a more representative system.

Petition Details

Our current electoral system uses first past the post (historical and unrepresentative) on the local level which determines the governing body on a state level.

As seen with our previous election this leads to disproportionate representation and as such should be amended by using a better system.

Additional Information

Two such options for a better system are mixed member proportional (MMP) or the single transferable vote (STV). Both still have local elections but would provide proportional representation.

Many people support the alternative vote, which, although better than first past the post, would not necessarily give proportional representation due to discounting the votes of smaller parties. If we are to reform the electoral system it must be to a truly proportional system such as MMP or STV.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104324

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