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Hold a referendum on changing the voting system to Proportional Representation.

Submitted on Sunday 22nd November 2015

Published on Wednesday 25th November 2015

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 25th May 2016

Signatures: 646

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Referendum ~ UK

Petition Action

Hold a referendum on changing the voting system to Proportional Representation.

Petition Details

Most governments within the UK are not true majorities.
The current system (First Past the Post) also encourages:
- tactical voting - which converges the choice of parties down to two.
- changing boundaries which enables parties in power to manipulate in order to keep power.

Additional Information

There are already Proportional representation systems within UK democracy; both the Scottish and European parliaments use (different) systems of Proportional Representation.

The problems with First Past the Post Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Mixed Member representation explained
https://youtu.be/QT0I-sdoSXU

Single Transferable Vote explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI

Why UK election results are the worst in History
https://youtu.be/r9rGX91rq5I


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