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💥Door-knocking and leafleting with NW Surrey @makevotesmatter.bsky.social supporters today to spread the message and get names for our latest petition.
💥SO MUCH SUPPORT for #proportionalrepresentation - it's a #DoorstepDemand !
🙏Great fun and lovely to have so many encouraging conversations!
💥SO MUCH SUPPORT for #proportionalrepresentation - it's a #DoorstepDemand !
🙏Great fun and lovely to have so many encouraging conversations!
December 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
💥Door-knocking and leafleting with NW Surrey @makevotesmatter.bsky.social supporters today to spread the message and get names for our latest petition.
💥SO MUCH SUPPORT for #proportionalrepresentation - it's a #DoorstepDemand !
🙏Great fun and lovely to have so many encouraging conversations!
💥SO MUCH SUPPORT for #proportionalrepresentation - it's a #DoorstepDemand !
🙏Great fun and lovely to have so many encouraging conversations!
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Layla Moran MP is a spot on. 👏👏👏
It’s way past time to GET PR DONE to MAKE VOTES MATTER
‘Make seats Match Votes’
#getPRdone
#MakeVotesMatter
#FairVotes
#ProportionalRepresentation
It’s way past time to GET PR DONE to MAKE VOTES MATTER
‘Make seats Match Votes’
#getPRdone
#MakeVotesMatter
#FairVotes
#ProportionalRepresentation
December 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Layla Moran MP is a spot on. 👏👏👏
It’s way past time to GET PR DONE to MAKE VOTES MATTER
‘Make seats Match Votes’
#getPRdone
#MakeVotesMatter
#FairVotes
#ProportionalRepresentation
It’s way past time to GET PR DONE to MAKE VOTES MATTER
‘Make seats Match Votes’
#getPRdone
#MakeVotesMatter
#FairVotes
#ProportionalRepresentation
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Our winner-take-all, two-party system has created the gridlocked, gerrymandered, polarized environment that we’re in, but the solution is closer than ever. Grant Tudor and @leedrutman.bsky.social explain how we got here and how we can help break the dysfunction.
WATCH: https://protdem.org/3XGcTTd
WATCH: https://protdem.org/3XGcTTd
December 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Our winner-take-all, two-party system has created the gridlocked, gerrymandered, polarized environment that we’re in, but the solution is closer than ever. Grant Tudor and @leedrutman.bsky.social explain how we got here and how we can help break the dysfunction.
WATCH: https://protdem.org/3XGcTTd
WATCH: https://protdem.org/3XGcTTd
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In Tuesday's runoff for Jersey City mayor, turnout fell nearly 50%.
#RankedChoiceVoting would let voters pick majority winners on a single, high-turnout Election Day. https://fairvote.org/jersey-city-and-hoboken-runoff-turnout-plummets-ranked-choice-voting-can-help/
#RankedChoiceVoting would let voters pick majority winners on a single, high-turnout Election Day. https://fairvote.org/jersey-city-and-hoboken-runoff-turnout-plummets-ranked-choice-voting-can-help/
Jersey City and Hoboken runoff turnout plummets. Ranked choice voting can help. - FairVote
In 2025, two major New Jersey cities – Jersey City and Hoboken – held runoff elections for local offices. Turnout declined in every contest.
fairvote.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
In Tuesday's runoff for Jersey City mayor, turnout fell nearly 50%.
#RankedChoiceVoting would let voters pick majority winners on a single, high-turnout Election Day. https://fairvote.org/jersey-city-and-hoboken-runoff-turnout-plummets-ranked-choice-voting-can-help/
#RankedChoiceVoting would let voters pick majority winners on a single, high-turnout Election Day. https://fairvote.org/jersey-city-and-hoboken-runoff-turnout-plummets-ranked-choice-voting-can-help/
"What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Proportional representation."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Proportional representation."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Zack Polanski: ‘I’m going to confess I haven’t finished The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg’
The Green party leader on his ‘floordrobe’, doomscrolling, and getting arrested on Waterloo Bridge
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Proportional representation."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Proportional representation."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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When the electorate fragments, first past the post electoral system becomes a slot machine. In an election tomorrow, a remarkably wide spread is possible.
This week's UK cover story on the coming legitimacy crisis featuring @owenwntr.bsky.social's new model
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
This week's UK cover story on the coming legitimacy crisis featuring @owenwntr.bsky.social's new model
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
When the electorate fragments, first past the post electoral system becomes a slot machine. In an election tomorrow, a remarkably wide spread is possible.
This week's UK cover story on the coming legitimacy crisis featuring @owenwntr.bsky.social's new model
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
This week's UK cover story on the coming legitimacy crisis featuring @owenwntr.bsky.social's new model
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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Welcome to slot-machine Britain! Our cover this week is on First Past the Post, the voting system that turns multi-party politics into a lottery.
Featuring our new modelling of British elections: www.economist.com/interactive/...
Featuring our new modelling of British elections: www.economist.com/interactive/...
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Welcome to slot-machine Britain! Our cover this week is on First Past the Post, the voting system that turns multi-party politics into a lottery.
Featuring our new modelling of British elections: www.economist.com/interactive/...
Featuring our new modelling of British elections: www.economist.com/interactive/...
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60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose.
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it.
I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it.
I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
Petition to Democracy Minister
First Past The Post undermines our politics.
It leaves most of us with MPs we didn't vote for, and keeps delivering results that don't represent public opinion.
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chan...
actionnetwork.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose.
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it.
I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it.
I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
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Small changes in the vote, wildly different outcomes. That's life under First Past the Post
Our new model captures the lottery of Britain’s electoral system
Similar results, our data analysis shows, can yield strikingly different outcomes
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Small changes in the vote, wildly different outcomes. That's life under First Past the Post
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A “new system for a new society starts with a commitment to proportional representation and the benefits of an alliance-based politics that establishes a long-term consensus for change” Neal Lawson of @compassoffice.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Farage and the Tory right will unite because they want power. Will the left just stand by? | Neal Lawson
It’s time for a harsh reality check. A progressive bloc of parties refusing to see a common threat risks disaster, says Neal Lawson of Compass
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM
A “new system for a new society starts with a commitment to proportional representation and the benefits of an alliance-based politics that establishes a long-term consensus for change” Neal Lawson of @compassoffice.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I wish every single article on gerrymandering would include this disclaimer:
“This is a unique aspect of the American political system. Most other countries don’t allow politicians to draw electoral maps. Many even go further with proportional representation to ensure outcomes match votes.”
“This is a unique aspect of the American political system. Most other countries don’t allow politicians to draw electoral maps. Many even go further with proportional representation to ensure outcomes match votes.”
Indiana state house Republicans just approved a new 9-0 gerrymandered map ousting two US House Democrats, giving Republicans 100% of seats in state where Trump got 58% of vote
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I wish every single article on gerrymandering would include this disclaimer:
“This is a unique aspect of the American political system. Most other countries don’t allow politicians to draw electoral maps. Many even go further with proportional representation to ensure outcomes match votes.”
“This is a unique aspect of the American political system. Most other countries don’t allow politicians to draw electoral maps. Many even go further with proportional representation to ensure outcomes match votes.”
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If that isn't an argument for proportional representation, I don't know what is. See also the previous general election result.
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If that isn't an argument for proportional representation, I don't know what is. See also the previous general election result.
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First Past the Post, the voting system that turns multi-party politics into a lottery.
“When the country has lots of medium-size parties, the correlation between the number of votes in, and number of seats out, owes more to Las Vegas than to Edmund Burke."
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
“When the country has lots of medium-size parties, the correlation between the number of votes in, and number of seats out, owes more to Las Vegas than to Edmund Burke."
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
Britain’s slot-machine politics
Voting is becoming a high-stakes, wildly unpredictable gamble
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
First Past the Post, the voting system that turns multi-party politics into a lottery.
“When the country has lots of medium-size parties, the correlation between the number of votes in, and number of seats out, owes more to Las Vegas than to Edmund Burke."
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
“When the country has lots of medium-size parties, the correlation between the number of votes in, and number of seats out, owes more to Las Vegas than to Edmund Burke."
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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If you genuinely want multiparty democracy of the sort seen in Europe, you’re going to have to have third parties building power bases at the local level and supporting major electoral reform, above all proportional representation.
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
If you genuinely want multiparty democracy of the sort seen in Europe, you’re going to have to have third parties building power bases at the local level and supporting major electoral reform, above all proportional representation.
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🎰 “When First Past the Post collides with multiparty competition, the electoral slot machine spins into operation”
⚠️ A stark warning from the @economist.com that the “unfairness of FPTP could undermine the legitimacy of the governments it produces”
⚠️ A stark warning from the @economist.com that the “unfairness of FPTP could undermine the legitimacy of the governments it produces”
Our new model captures the lottery of Britain’s electoral system
Similar results, our data analysis shows, can yield strikingly different outcomes
stage.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🎰 “When First Past the Post collides with multiparty competition, the electoral slot machine spins into operation”
⚠️ A stark warning from the @economist.com that the “unfairness of FPTP could undermine the legitimacy of the governments it produces”
⚠️ A stark warning from the @economist.com that the “unfairness of FPTP could undermine the legitimacy of the governments it produces”
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The turmoil on the BC right is not about one leader. It is what happens when first past the post forces every faction into a single party.
Proportional representation gives voters real choice and lets parties compete honestly instead of fighting internally.
Proportional representation gives voters real choice and lets parties compete honestly instead of fighting internally.
December 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The turmoil on the BC right is not about one leader. It is what happens when first past the post forces every faction into a single party.
Proportional representation gives voters real choice and lets parties compete honestly instead of fighting internally.
Proportional representation gives voters real choice and lets parties compete honestly instead of fighting internally.
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Even former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has said Canada needs to take a serious look at proportional representation.
When leaders across the spectrum recognize that first-past-the-post is failing, the path to a stronger democracy becomes clearer.
When leaders across the spectrum recognize that first-past-the-post is failing, the path to a stronger democracy becomes clearer.
December 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Even former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has said Canada needs to take a serious look at proportional representation.
When leaders across the spectrum recognize that first-past-the-post is failing, the path to a stronger democracy becomes clearer.
When leaders across the spectrum recognize that first-past-the-post is failing, the path to a stronger democracy becomes clearer.
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First Past The Post versus Proportional Representation
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
First Past The Post versus Proportional Representation
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A great way to avoid future chaos? Congress should mandate proportional representation.
No more endless legal limbo.
No more gerrymandering.
Easy peezy lemon squeezy
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
No more endless legal limbo.
No more gerrymandering.
Easy peezy lemon squeezy
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Chaos Reigns as Texas Awaits Supreme Court’s Ruling on Redistricting
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A great way to avoid future chaos? Congress should mandate proportional representation.
No more endless legal limbo.
No more gerrymandering.
Easy peezy lemon squeezy
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
No more endless legal limbo.
No more gerrymandering.
Easy peezy lemon squeezy
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
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Wrapped 2025 has dropped 👀👀
How has Britain's democracy performed this year? Let's check...
How has Britain's democracy performed this year? Let's check...
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Wrapped 2025 has dropped 👀👀
How has Britain's democracy performed this year? Let's check...
How has Britain's democracy performed this year? Let's check...
"That “new system for a new society” starts with a commitment to proportional representation and the benefits of an alliance-based politics that, because it is agile, establishes a long-term consensus for change."
#MakeVotesMatter
#MakeVotesMatter
"It is high time the left doesn’t just preach unity and solidarity, but practises it."
Compass Director Neal Lawson on the existential crisis that a united Right poses - and what the Left can do about it - in @theguardian.com.
Compass Director Neal Lawson on the existential crisis that a united Right poses - and what the Left can do about it - in @theguardian.com.
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"That “new system for a new society” starts with a commitment to proportional representation and the benefits of an alliance-based politics that, because it is agile, establishes a long-term consensus for change."
#MakeVotesMatter
#MakeVotesMatter
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Our stall on Saturday at the Green Christmas Fair in Oxford town hall - thanks to all volunteers and cake makers. Les, Sheila, Ros, Helen, Stuart, Gill, Cherry, Alma and Sue. Lots of interest and good conversations.
December 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Our stall on Saturday at the Green Christmas Fair in Oxford town hall - thanks to all volunteers and cake makers. Les, Sheila, Ros, Helen, Stuart, Gill, Cherry, Alma and Sue. Lots of interest and good conversations.
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Interesting article on the proportional representation/housing policy nexus: commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/how-...
How a 1940 electoral system reform in Cambridge made its 2025 housing breakthrough possible - CommonWealth Beacon
This is more than just a housing “win.” It’s a triumph for Cambridge’s unique brand of representative democracy—one that balances citywide priorities with fair representation for diverse communities.
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Interesting article on the proportional representation/housing policy nexus: commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/how-...
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After the turmoil of the last Tory government, it's time for some stability. Governments that look to the long term, not just the next crisis.
November 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
After the turmoil of the last Tory government, it's time for some stability. Governments that look to the long term, not just the next crisis.