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Change The General Election Voting System From FPTP To Instant-Runoff Voting

Submitted on Thursday 1st September 2016

Published on Thursday 8th September 2016

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 8th March 2017

Signatures: 9

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Petition Action

Change The General Election Voting System From FPTP To Instant-Runoff Voting

Petition Details

Hello, I am Emmanuel and I am 13 years old and came across a video on YouTube that displayed how bad the first past the post voting system is. In its simplest form FPTP is basically winner takes all. In the general election the Conservatives won 36.9% of the votes but they have 100% of the power.

Additional Information

I want to change the the the general election voting system from FPTP to IRV because in IRV there is definitely a majority winner so most people who vote will at least be moderately happy.

This YouTube video explains how bad FPTP is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

This YouTube video explains how much better IRV is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE


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