Submitted on Wednesday 17th June 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 4th August 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Change from the First Past The Post to the Single Transferable Vote system.
The current First Past the Post system means that many people's votes are wasted. 'Safe seats' mean that no matter what people vote, one party will get in. A solution would be the Single Transferable Vote (STV). This system is much more proportional, and has worked in many countries.
The STV system works by ranking candidates in order. The party that has the least first choice votes is eliminated, and their votes go to the voter's second choice candidates. This is repeated until each party has enough votes to gain a seat. In a constituency, there are multiple seats, which means that smaller parties can gain more seats.
For example, in Ireland (which uses STV) the number of seats that were given to the wrong party was only 6. However, in the UK it was 114.
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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.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300274
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