Calling for urgent electoral reform

The 2015 UK Parliamentary Election saw 24.8 per cent of the electorate vote for parties other than Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrats. That’s nearly a quarter of the votes cast – up from 11.9 per cent in 2010. Of those, 12.6 per cent, or 3,881,099 people, voted UKIP, yet remarkably this result delivered just one Member of Parliament (MP). The Conservatives on the other hand received three times as many votes, but also 331 times as many MPs. This is the result of an outdated First Past the Post (FPtP) voting system.


Our view on voting system options for local and UK Parliamentary elections