The door to proportional representation is not yet shut. While quite a few commentators are talking about how they'll vote in a referendum whose question is not yet set I happen to think that's a bit premature. The bill has not yet been ...

A point Clegg refused to answer, sadly given the opportunity by Mitchell himself when he coupled this point with a more partisan point-scoring comment that Clegg chose to respond to, allowing him to ignore proportional representation ...

For some reason one of the main arguments against some form of proportional representation is that it invariably means minority governments and often means that it takes a long time to form a government after an election as parties ...

Germans call this "personalized proportional representation." Every voter has competing MPs: you can go to your local MP or one of your provincial MPs. Lord Jenkins' model needs some tweaking for Canada. He had no region with more than ...

Two Big Parties are not good for democracy. Burton is active with Fair Vote Canada; Green is a professor of political science at the University of Regina. Tags: joyce green, liberal-ndp merger, mike burton, proportional representation. ...

One of the reasons that the Liberals may have been avoiding the coalition option is proportional representation. Despite having been rejected in several provinces in recent years, it is definitely on the agenda at the federal level. ...

But under proportional representation (PR), where if a party receives 40 per cent of the vote it receives 40 per cent of the seats, the Conservatives (with 38 per cent support) would be reduced to a still strong 117 seats, the Liberals ...

Here's just another clear demonstration why Canada needs electoral reform and specifically proportional representation. The Green Party is currently polling at 12.6%, and would win four seats in the House of Commons. ...

Alan Johnson, Labour's "lost leader", is considering standing down from his Westminster seat and fighting a by-election on the issue of proportional representation, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. The shadow home secretary's dramatic ...

And I for one hope that some agreed electoral reform is part of it (let's use the Cameron-Clegg coalition agreement as our model – single transferable vote now (voters choose first, second, third candidates so that an MP is elected by ...