Submitted on Friday 15th July 2016
Rejected on Friday 22nd July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Make changes to the electoral system so that voters are better represented
In our current system, an MP can be elected to parliament if only 30% of the electorate voted for them. Likewise, a political party can form a government with only 30% of MPs. At any given time, the majority of the population is being ruled by a government it did not ask for. This needs to change.
There are 650 MPs. If we rank them all by this measure of legitimacy, the median MP won 30.1 per cent of their votes, which is very similar to the mean winning margin (30.6 per cent). [http://www.may2015.com/ideas/not-a-single-sitting-mp-won-a-majority-of-their-constituency/]
Ukip won 3.8m votes, the Greens 1.1m; but they won only one MP each in the election. In Margate, there is growing support for electoral reform. [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/09/margate-ukip-greens-electoral-reform-farage]
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
It's not clear what kind of change you would like to see to the electoral system. Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action. You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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