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Make Votes Matter

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Make Votes Matter is a political pressure group based in the United Kingdom which campaigns for replacing the archaic first-past-the-post voting system with one of proportional representation for elections to the British House of Commons. The group was founded in 2015.

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Half of Brits support proportional representation voting system (www.thelondoneconomic.com)
submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/makevotesmatter@feddit.uk
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However, 45 per cent of those asked in the survey still preferred having a single local MP for each constituency, and are split on whether governments should be made up of a single party or multiple parties.

The author left out the fact that the single transferable vote and mixed-member proportional both have local representation. It’s only the party lists branch of the proportional representation family that lacks the local representation.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

New Zealand has MMP and Ireland has STV and they both have local representation.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Half of Brits might be.... but you need to convince the Labour party in government to adopt this stance. And they're not going to do that.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Yep but inless that half is prepared to vote on that. Over everything else.

The main parties will continue to ignore it.