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How rubbish was the result in your area for the #uklocalelections ? You can use this tool to find out. https://makevotesmatter.org.uk/postcode-tool/ #proportionalrepresentation #fptp
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I was really hoping #UKLabour would have time to scrap #FPTP before they committed hara-kiri.
I don't see a potential replacement for Starmer who looks like a safer bet that I would vote for. What they need is to play as a team and stop Starmer announcing daft ideas before they've all thought them through. It's not strong leadership to make mistakes on your own. If they were collective mistakes then they may as well go now and let Honest Nige finish us off.
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"The SNP, Reform, Plaid Cymru, the Greens, and even to some extent the Liberal Democrats have won big because they aren’t seen as Westminster parties.
There are two potential responses to that. We can either turn up our noses at those people, moan about their lack of trust in the system and talk smugly about how to rebuild it, or we can accept they are correct"
Westminster’s two-party system in crisis as Reform and Greens surge
https://www.opendemocracy.net/election-crisis-westminster-reform-greens-labour-conservative-scotland-wales-two-party-system-finished/ -
How the UK’s winner-takes-all voting system has turned on Labour and the Tories.
Under the first-past-the-post electoral system, the candidate or candidates with the most votes in each seat are elected.
It is used in the UK at general elections and in local elections such as the ones just held in England.
The system favoured Reform in the English local elections.
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The UK election results are total chaos, and this is not normal:
https://makevotesmatter.org.uk/news/2026/5/8/local-elections-chaos-first-looks/
#ukelection #makevotesmatter #fptp #proportionalrepresentation
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@ReggieHere @brumgreens.bsky.social Why should it? An electoral system shouldn't be designed to get the result one party wants. That's how Conservatives left us stuck with #FPTP and they are now suffering from it. Things change. It needs to be 'a fair game'. I'd like there to be no wasted votes or need for tactical voting, for every vote to at least allow honest expression of people's democratic will.
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@NicelyManifest I am annoyed with the voting system.
D'Hondt is better in many ways than #FPTP, but it gives far too much power to parties and it creates #WastedVotes. This year, the wasted votes have been for Labour and the Greens, handing ~4 seats to #ReformUK.
Much better to use #STV, as in Ireland, in Northern Ireland, and in Scottish local elections. There are no wasted votes in STV.
But I like the result. #PlaidCymru will be fresh, and I like minority governments. It keeps them honest.
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🧵 1/2: If there's anything this #UKpol #localelections has definitely cemented, is how the #FirstPastThePost #FPTP system has been totally played by #Reform & its #billionaire supporters who absolutely don't need #PR, when the system already gives them a disproportionate representation as long as they pass the tipping point, (30% of votes gets 2/3 of seats). FPTP encourages #gerrymandering, which now started in the #UK.
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I've noticed that Sky News is displaying the colours of England's (?) political parties with Lib Dems to the left of Labour, on last night's election results story. I think that's fair. A "broad-Left coalition" doesn't need to include Labour, if Greens and LibDems keep growing.
I wouldn't be trying to get rid of Starmer, if I was them. I didn't hear any reporting on the LibDems during the campaign but they've grown anyway, partly because #FPTP forces us to vote against parties we don't want. -
@benroyce @numodular @georgetakei
the #USA is an #FPTP #voting system
meaning there can only be 2 parties
I’ve written a lot about this in other posts, so I’m not going to repeat it all here, but Duverger's Law is absolute nonsense. Anyone with a basic understanding of game theory can see that it describes an unstable equilibrium state. Anyone who has paid attention to political history of the last century can point to a large number of examples of this equilibrium collapsing. It was pretty indefensible as an idea when Duverger published it, it’s been repeatedly shown to be false since then.
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the #USA is an #FPTP #voting system
meaning there can only be 2 parties
it's not corruption, it's just math (not saying corruption doesn't exist, but even if all corruption magically disappeared, we'd still have only 2 parties)
a 3rd party on the left would divide the left vote and #MAGA would win
i want 3rd parties
to get that we need #rankedChoiceVoting
to get ranked choice voting, we have to elect #Democrats who support it
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the #USA is an #FPTP #voting system
meaning there can only be 2 parties
it's not corruption, it's just math (not saying corruption doesn't exist, but even if all corruption magically disappeared, we'd still have only 2 parties)
a 3rd party on the left would divide the left vote and #MAGA would win
i want 3rd parties
to get that we need #rankedChoiceVoting
to get ranked choice voting, we have to elect #Democrats who support it
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the #USA is an #FPTP #voting system
meaning there can only be 2 parties
it's not corruption, it's just math (not saying corruption doesn't exist, but even if all corruption magically disappeared, we'd still have only 2 parties)
a 3rd party on the left would divide the left vote and #MAGA would win
i want 3rd parties
to get that we need #rankedChoiceVoting
to get ranked choice voting, we have to elect #Democrats who support it
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the #USA is an #FPTP #voting system
meaning there can only be 2 parties
it's not corruption, it's just math (not saying corruption doesn't exist, but even if all corruption magically disappeared, we'd still have only 2 parties)
a 3rd party on the left would divide the left vote and #MAGA would win
i want 3rd parties
to get that we need #rankedChoiceVoting
to get ranked choice voting, we have to elect #Democrats who support it
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@TheComfortableSpotPodcast Sadly the UK was never offered proportional reprentation. The #AlternativeVote offered a decade ago was in many ways worse than #FPTP.
#STV is the best system, and it was used for the university constituencies 1918—1950, but sadly not made universal.
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Switch to proportional representation for general elections
We think the First Past the Post system is becoming increasingly obsolete as the UK continues to move away from a two party system. We are now in a place where the party who may gain the most seats at an election could be the most unacceptable to the majority. We must protect our democracy.
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the #democrats fucking suck
but remember: we're stuck in 2 party because we are a shitty #FPTP voting system
3rd party in our system divides the left #vote and helps #MAGA win
(we can fix that with ranked choice voting... that's a whole other post)
so we are stuck with one way forward:
take over the democrats
how?
we have #primaries coming up and this is your chance to replace your spineless #democrat turd rep with a real leftist
mob the primaries
what did #mamdani teach us?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5baPn6SAQA
#US #USA #USPol #USPoli #USPolitics #America #Propaganda #Capitalism #Socialism #SocialDemocracy #LandOfTheFree #Freedom #Liberty #Education #Brainwashed #Colonialism #Healthcare #Childcare #ParentalLeave #ImperialOverstretch #CriticalThinking #Cults #MindControl #Gerrymandering #FPTP #TwoPartySystem #RankedChoice #RankedChoiceVoting #PledgeOfAllegiance #QuestionAuthority #ChristianNationalism #AmericanExceptionalism
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With the completion of any political party leadership election, I hope everyone asks their parties, MPs and candidates…
"Why can't we all have ranked ballot in our general elections!? "
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Why is #CliveLewis?
The #LabourParty MP for Norwich South is a good critic of #neoliberalism, and of public alienation from politics. He is right that proportional representation could open up politics, tho like most English critics of #FPTP he seems unaware of the importance of #STV.
But all he seems to do about it is 3 or 4 articles per year in #TheGuardian and a few TV appearances.
Radical change requires sustained hard work to build movements. Clive isn't that.
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#FPTP voting is obsolete.
But conflating the first sensible alternative to it #STV )single transferable vote_ with #proportionalRepresentation is unhelpful.Most of us will have a first choice, but many of us will not get that choice elected. But most of us will have a second choice and if pressed could manage to rank the last two parties in order of worst.
And the satisfaction of having your second choice, not your 5th choice, elected is at least moderate.
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@iaruffell @ZackPolanski
Hah! I wasn't predicting - but after the G&D success, teh commentariat will be busy speculating on various things and I'm sure this will be one of them. It is an opportunity to be clear that #PR is about genuine democracy and not 'rewarding losers' (as Conservative Home once put it).If you believe in #PR, you believe even those who really really disagree with should have power proportional to their support. Say it now, while riding the wave of success under #FPTP.
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@tompearce49 I think it is best not to link urgently needed electoral reform to replacing the House of Lords. The Lords have been more reliable at representing the will of the (English and Welsh, at least) people than the elected chamber over the last few years so that change will be tangled in the weeds for years.
We NEED a simple change to a transferable votes system to save British democracy. It's obviously fairer than #FPTP and a very simple change to replace the need for tactical voting.
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"Unfortunately under a First Past The Post (#FPTP) voting system such an outcome is a recipe for the next UK government to be a Trump tribute act."
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Returning to the implications of the Green Party of England & Wales winning the Gorton & Denton by-election, @sjwrenlewis offers an interesting (but also perhaps worrying) analysis of what this means for the necessary tactical voting to defeat the Right in at the next general election.
You may agree or disagree with his analysis of voters' intent, but its a usefully pragmatic analysis of the prospects for the progressive left.
#TacticalVoting #politics #Greens #FPTP
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/03/why-gorton-and-denton-is-still-good.html -
One conclusion from the by-election seems to be that the @thegreenparty is likely to benefit from #FPTP in the near future because their opposition is split between Reform and Labour.
So it will be a real test of their commitment to democracy for them to continue emphasis on #PR as a policy.
Will @ZackPolanski say: We don't *want* 100% of the power on 40% of the vote. We want government to reflect the political diversity of the country.
Graciousness in victory
(I say this as a GP member)
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@kibcol1049 It's "too close to call" but predicted 60% Left to 30% Far Right, so #FPTP has been proved to be anti-democratic. Labour needs to fix this before a General Election or we risk losing our freedom to say "No!" to fascism, without violence. Reform are already planning to take Council pensions, to invest in their dodgy friends. I don't trust the Far Right with money. Electoral Reform needs urgent cross-party co-operation. Let the record show Farage thought so too, a couple of years ago.
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"#Labour's claim to be laser-focused on stopping #ReformUK rings hollow the moment it falls behind another contender in the polls. This is not and has never been Labour’s primary aim. If it were, it would have introduced #ElectoralReform. I cannot emphasise this enough: the only thing that would allow Nigel Farage’s party to take power is our unfair and undemocratic first-past-the-post system – and Starmer’s determination to maintain it."
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#Electoral Reform:
End the Chaos of First Past the Post
Think we get the governments we #voted for? Think again.
We haven’t had a single party #government the majority voted for since the 1930s.
First Past the Post ( #FPTP ) means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament.
If you agree that we need a voting system where every #vote counts, add your name now:
https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=Mastodon_Fediverse
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#Electoral Reform:
End the Chaos of First Past the Post
Think we get the governments we #voted for? Think again.
We haven’t had a single party #government the majority voted for since the 1930s.
First Past the Post ( #FPTP ) means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament.
If you agree that we need a voting system where every #vote counts, add your name now:
https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=Mastodon_Fediverse
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#Electoral Reform:
End the Chaos of First Past the Post
Think we get the governments we #voted for? Think again.
We haven’t had a single party #government the majority voted for since the 1930s.
First Past the Post ( #FPTP ) means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament.
If you agree that we need a voting system where every #vote counts, add your name now:
https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=Mastodon_Fediverse
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#Electoral Reform:
End the Chaos of First Past the Post
Think we get the governments we #voted for? Think again.
We haven’t had a single party #government the majority voted for since the 1930s.
First Past the Post ( #FPTP ) means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament.
If you agree that we need a voting system where every #vote counts, add your name now:
https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=Mastodon_Fediverse
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#Electoral Reform:
End the Chaos of First Past the Post
Think we get the governments we #voted for? Think again.
We haven’t had a single party #government the majority voted for since the 1930s.
First Past the Post ( #FPTP ) means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament.
If you agree that we need a voting system where every #vote counts, add your name now:
https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=Mastodon_Fediverse
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@ChrisMayLA6 And the reason UKLabour are out of time is #FPTP.
In 2007–11, #FiannaFail drove Ireland's economy over a cliff edge. #FF lost 58% of its vote share at Ireland's 2011 general election, but #STV ensured that #FF was not wiped out. It partially rebuilt, and by 2024 FF was again the largest party.
But #FPTP is far more brutal to losers. Labour's likely fall to under 20% of the vote will leave it as a tiny rump, too weak to rebuild.
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🚨Our #democracy shouldn’t be a gamble! 😤
#FirstPastThePost fails 70% of voters! 🤬 We urgently need to scrap it. I’ve asked my MP to attend a crucial briefing on how to do just that.
Join me 👇: #Politics #Justice #FPTP
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-mp-our-democracy-shouldnt-be-a-gamble?source=twitter&& -
Free speech doesn’t disappear because someone wakes up one morning and decides to ban it.
It erodes because systems slowly stop rewarding tolerance, Lets look at how we can possibly protect what we have.
#Politics #FreeSpeech #ECHR #UkPolitics #HRA #FPTP #PR #Rethink
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Free speech doesn’t disappear because someone wakes up one morning and decides to ban it.
It erodes because systems slowly stop rewarding tolerance, Lets look at how we can possibly protect what we have.
#Politics #FreeSpeech #ECHR #UkPolitics #HRA #FPTP #PR #Rethink
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Free speech doesn’t disappear because someone wakes up one morning and decides to ban it.
It erodes because systems slowly stop rewarding tolerance, Lets look at how we can possibly protect what we have.
#Politics #FreeSpeech #ECHR #UkPolitics #HRA #FPTP #PR #Rethink
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Free speech doesn’t disappear because someone wakes up one morning and decides to ban it.
It erodes because systems slowly stop rewarding tolerance, Lets look at how we can possibly protect what we have.
#Politics #FreeSpeech #ECHR #UkPolitics #HRA #FPTP #PR #Rethink
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Free speech doesn’t disappear because someone wakes up one morning and decides to ban it.
It erodes because systems slowly stop rewarding tolerance, Lets look at how we can possibly protect what we have.
#Politics #FreeSpeech #ECHR #UkPolitics #HRA #FPTP #PR #Rethink
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The UK’s political system isn’t broken.
It’s working exactly as intended, just not for the benefit of you or me.
My radical request — is for BORING POLITICS … In this post I outline why what the UK really needs is not show and outrage but dull predictability.
#Politics #Rethink #UKPolitics #FPTP -
#AndrewMarr has abandoned #KeirStarmer, but not his misreading. "Starmer, I insist, is a decent man with strong public values." https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/10/i-thought-labour-would-fix-everything-i-was-wrong
#Starmer is just a frontman for #MorganMcSweeney, whose goal is only to destroy the left. Starmer lied his way to #LabourParty leader, purged the left, but brought no vision, won #GE24 only by a quirk of #FPTP, and smashes liberties.
As political editor of The #NewStatesman, Marr has projected onto Starmer talents which nobody else sees.
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Fantastic day at #readingpride today. Massive number of people signing our petition and joining our mailing list. Lots of good chats on all things democratic #fptp #proportionalrepresentation #democracy #makevotesmatter
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Please support switching BACK to the previous (preferential) Supplementary Vote system for electing mayors in the UK - see https://actionnetwork.org/letters/devolution-bill
The current FPTP system results in daft things like Helen Godwin being elected Mayor with just 25.0% of the vote (not a pop at her particularly). A preference list ensures ending up with a broadly acceptable winner. With the current system and our split electorate, elections are pretty much a lottery **#MakeVotesMatter** **#FPTP** **#ukpolitics** -
“When will Labour have the guts to fix it?”
Never.
Because while FPTP means they can spend years out of power, they like the other side of the coin, by which they can spend years in total power. Just like the Tories.
And I doubt Fartage will scare them into PR.
#Labour #ElectoralReform #FirstPastThePost #ProportionalRepresentation #FPTP #PR
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I should be packed and on my way to #GothsOnAField right now, but my brain wouldn't let me go until I wrote some code.
This is the start of a piece of work to demonstrate visually the value of preferential voting systems such as #AV over #FPTP. There will be a companion piece to demonstrate the value of #PR systems.
https://codeberg.org/diffrentcolours/whyprefvote
The long term goal is an actual grassroots movement for #VotingReform in the UK, separate from political parties.
But for now I've written enough that I can go hang out in a barn and watch #Goth #LiveMusic for a weekend.
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An Australian's bewilderment at the UK's undemocratic elections https://makevotesmatter.org.uk/news/2025/5/2/as-an-australian-heres-what-surprised-me-about-the-uk-political-system/ #mvm #fptp
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Surrey Council area is planning to change to be a Unitary Authority - I'm hoping that will be a good time to press for the advantages for a truely democratic way of selecting our Councillors. Unfortunately, we get to skip this particular May's local elections because the powers that be would rather people with a stale mandate drive this massive change rather than elect new people to do it - that would be a waste, you see 😜
Anyways https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/why-all-local-councils-should-be-elected-with-proportional-representation/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ers-email&utm_campaign=blog-roundup&utm_content=ERS+News:+12+April+2025+B gives a good account of the democratic deficit inherint in the current "democracy". #FPTP #MakeVotesMatter #PR
