“'The Two Party System Is Dead – It's Time For Electoral Reform'”

by Adrian Goldberg in The Byline Times on Substack

@uk_politics
@UKLabour

“Campaigning backbench MP Alex Sobel and Darren Hughs of the Electoral Reform Society talk to the Byline Times Podcast about the need to make Parliament more accurately reflect our votes”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/the-two-party-system-is-dead-its

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #ElectoralSystem #FirstPastThePost #Broken #Dead #Labour

'The Two Party System Is Dead – It's Time For Electoral Reform'

Campaigning backbench MP Alex Sobel and Darren Hughs of the Electoral Reform Society talk to the Byline Times Podcast about the need to make Parliament more accurately reflect our votes.

Byline Times

Labor MP defends electoral registration to empty block amid rebuild
By Nicholas McElroy

Dickson MP Ali France has been referred to the Australian Electoral Commission with claims she is registered to vote at a vacant suburban block in her north Brisbane electorate.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-27/ali-france-empty-block-electoral-allegation-james-mcgrath/106728234

#ElectoralSystem #FederalGovernment #NicholasMcElroy

Labor MP defends electoral registration to empty block amid rebuild

Dickson MP Ali France has been referred to the Australian Electoral Commission with claims she is registered to vote at a vacant suburban block in her north Brisbane electorate. 

“The same, unfortunately, is also true for the other basic #institutional #reform that #Britain urgently needs i.e. the abolition of the out-dated #firstpastthepost #electoralsystem and its replacement by a moderated form of #proportionalrepresentation.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Chartbook 449: Voldemort on Th...
Chartbook 449: Voldemort on Threadneedle street. The Bank of England and the "haunted house" of English politics.

Imagine the scene:

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This week I have learned that Malta and Ireland are both using the Single Transferable Vote method in national elections. I knew that e.g. Northern Ireland are doing it, but I was only aware of Australia doing it at the sovereign level.

#STV #SingleTransferableVote
#ElectoralSystem #ProportionalRepresentation

Reforms should target disinformation that undermines voters' trust, says elections chief
The head of Elections Canada says the Liberals' proposed electoral reform law doesn't adequately address concerns about bad actors attempting to sow doubt about the country's electoral system.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/election-law-reforms-misinformation-9.7191668?cmp=rss

It seems "The 2026 midterms are officially underway" (https://www.politico.com/newsletters/the-recast/2025/07/29/2026-elections-battleground-senate-candidates-00481526)

The US' political system is exhausting. And their permanent campaigning caused by the election cycle is counterproductive to the goals of a representative democracy, since at any given time, at least half of the elected representatives are focused on short-term goals.

#Politics #US #uspol #elections #electoralsystem

reincarnation of the 1940's #US #Fascist party (#AmericaFirst) did, in contrast, win the congressional majorities (Senate: 53/47, House: 220/2015.)

https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_U.S._Congress

This was enabled by a dualistic, unfairer #ElectoralSystem, the #US' #WinnerTakeAll system.
In contrast to a variant of the puralistic, fairer system of #ProportionalRepresentation.

Here is a comparison to the US system of #WinnerTakeAll (or #FirstPastThePost in the #UK:)

https://protectdemocracy.org/work/proportional-representation-explained/

@realSiegfried @jrredho

Election results, 2024: U.S. Congress

Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

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