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But still Labour won't give us PR, they want to lose to ReformUK, don't they?
Although I’m in favour of Proportional Representation, I’m also worried about the emphasis sometimes placed on it as a solution to the UK’s dysfunctional politics and democratic deficit.
While I think PR is better than FPTP, I don’t think it changes much in itself. FPTP systems produce a duopoly of ‘broad church’ parties that tend to take turns at government; PR systems produce lots of smaller parties, that indeed more accurately reflect the electors’ views, but which generally only get into government as part of ‘broad church’ coalitions. If you look at what governments have actually achieved under the various systems in Europe over recent decades, I’d say it’s true that PR has led to better government – but not actually that much better.
Reforming the funding of political parties would do more, I think – and many of the countries seen from the UK as better-governed are different in this respect, as well as voting systems – but I’d say equally important are facilitating media impartiality (by which I mean true impartiality – telling the truth regardless of vested interests – not the BBC idea of balancing opposing views) and decentralisation – passing far more funding and spending power, and decision-making, down to local levels.
Why are our mayors winning on less than 30% of the vote?
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Past week’s #mayoral #elections marked a worrying milestone for #democracy in #England
For1st time two combined authority mayors have been elected on less than 30% of vote – with 1 scraping by on 25%
The result? Mayors with sweeping powers are now taking office with the backing of a only small minority of voters
https://electoral-reform.org.uk/why-are-our-mayors-winning-on-less-than-30-of-the-vote
What’s wrong with First Past the Post?
Under First Past the Post huge portions of us end up without a representative that we actually #voted for
The reality is that First Past the Post delivers election results that are disproportional, with seats in #Parliament simply not matching votes.
https://electoral-reform.org.uk/whats-wrong-with-first-past-the-post
‘FPTP: Bad for Tories, bad for Labour, bad for democracy’
https://labourlist.org/2025/05/electoral-reform-sandy-martin-local-election-response/
@Daojoan
America is by far the least structurally democratic country, and the results show
The rich white slave-holders built in their power and it has never been broken
Britain, Canada, and India all suffer under First Past the Post systems
But the US has its Electoral College and all its other failed democracy ills: voter suppression, gerrymandering, and campaign funding/bribery/corruption
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting
#democracy #FPTP
And so in #WECA the lurch to the right continues despite much of the area being #progressive and left.
First place: #Labour. Second place: #ReformUK Ltd.
#FPTP needs to go. #ElectoralReformNow or yesterday is desperately needed, otherwise we'll keep getting minority lunatics trashing the country, councils and people against the will of the majority!
@rorystarr @tezoatlipoca @fairvote.ca
Lol, concentration of votes matters, for sure.
Federalist parties in Canada, however, are also opposed to proportional representation because not only did the Bloc gain more seats than its votes under #fptp, under a #PR system, they would likely get even more seats, as people would be less reluctant to vote Bloc, this increasing the risk of another independence referendum.
In 2021 they benefited from #fptp, but less than the Liberals and Cons.
In 2025, they got almost exactly 6.3% of seats for that number of votes, so no gain there, but with a few thousand fewer votes than the NDP, they got 22 seats and the NDP only got 7. 
Read this excellent 18 part thread of just what the fuck happened Monday night.
6 of the last 8 federal elections in Canada were minority governments. #fptp is now just banana republic fuckery.
The 3 circles here, from 2021, will be even more vile for 2025.
Annnnnnny NDP MP who supports Carney must demand a #proportionalrepresentation bill to be passed by the end of 2025.
Right?
Liberalism always loses to fascism, because fascism is based on stoking fear & hatred & blame & ignorance.
Liberalism fails the tolerance paradox & somehow is ok with lies like this crime nonsense, attached.
Our job in the c/a/n/a/d/a project is to end #fptp http://fairvote.ca go fully #elbowsup, convince the 50% of those voting #neverpoilievre that their nazis are losers.
If a bar lets in nazis, it's a nazi bar.
Man, if we could just get rid of the #FPTP system, these things would go much better, and not be so polarized.
We ever so clearly need to scrap the #fptp electoral system.
It worked ok in the 19c when only men could vote and there were only 2 parties.
21c? No fucking way.
@WilliamNB doesn't the #UK use #FPTP for their elections, just like the US?
if you do, i doubt that you can safely vote third party without securing your worst possible outcome.
you'd need to change voting laws first.
@the5thColumnist @grumble209 @GutterPoetry @todymotmot @wendinoakland @profdc9 @zakalwe
it does
with the caveat #canada has #parliamentary #democracy, which lends some stability to 3rd parties, while the #usa #fptp nonparliamentary system means 3rd parties can never be stable
#australia meanwhile is laughing at both the usa and canada, since they have parliamentary *and* #rankedchoicevoting #rcv (what they call preferential voting)
that's exactly what has to happen
now the #left must devour the #Democrats
only then can we get movement on things like #rankedChoiceVoting #rcv where we get viable third parties
with ranked choice and stable third parties we get to vote our conscience free and clear for once in this damn country
rather than this endless insipid need for strategy in #fptp voting, compromising to #centrist bullshit that saps the will and the passion