While we love all of our supporters from the US, we are a UK-based campaign and - like most of our posts - this post was about UK politics.
We agree that the US should move to a proportional system as well!
Proportional Representation
More people would vote if they knew they could vote with their heart - and that their vote would count.
Proportional Representation.
Difficult times call for cooperation and dialogue. But our voting system keeps giving total power to parties that only a fraction of voters support.
On 30% of the vote, one party could win full control of our economy, health, foreign policy and defence.
We can't take that risk.
"Britain’s voting system encourages the belief that complex social conflicts can be settled not by compromise, but by conquest."
Completely right. It's never been more clear that no one party can speak for the whole country.
That's why we need PR 👇
"Many people vote all their lives without electing anyone."
Great to see this in the Islington Tribune!
"Ultimately voting systems should exist to reflect the will of the people. If they do not, is it rule of the people or rule by the system?"
Great letter in the Guardian by Hugo, a campaigner with Young Make Votes Matter 👏👏👏
Happy International Women's Day! ✊💃
Studies consistently show that countries with proportional voting systems tend to have more women's representation in their parliaments.
We spoke to three brilliant campaigners, representing three generations of women, about why they support PR 👇
As we approach International Women's Day 2026 - former MEP @julie4north.bsky.social explains how PR can stop the slide into far-right extreme politics which would undermine so many of the rights generations of women have fought for.
politicsforthemany.co.uk/change-the-v...
💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com:
"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.
First Past the Post achieves neither."
It will cause unnecessary chaos and destabilise politics.
It's too complicated, people wouldn't know how to vote.
It's not a priority right now.
Those were some of the arguments used over a century ago against giving women the vote. Sounds familiar?
📑 In his speech about the Representation of the People Bill, @ollyglover.bsky.social quoted an open letter from 50+ academics, warning about the dangers of FPTP.
➡️ Read it here: www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Thank you for speaking out for a fair voting system.
With 4 parties and in some areas 5 parties, candidates are going to get elected where the more than two thirds of the voters have waisted their vote.
Voting is becoming like gambling now where people weigh up the odds and people vote negatively to keep someone from winning.
Thank you to @elliechowns.bsky.social @lisasmartmp.bsky.social @rozsavage.bsky.social @patrickhurley.bsky.social @jamesnaish.bsky.social @ollyglover.bsky.social @zoefranklinld.bsky.social and the many other MP who spoke out for fair votes.
During the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill, MP after MP got up to point out what's missing from it: fixing the voting system.
The problems with FPTP can no longer be ignored - and neither can the growing calls for PR. 📣
Here are just a few highlights:
🚨 "The government's refusal to look at Proportional Representation
is dangerously short-sighted."
💬 Brendan O’Hara MP speaks during this week's Representation of the People Bill debate 👇
❗️Increasing political fragmentation means the case for electoral reform is now stronger than ever.
"Numerous MPs across parties called for a move to PR, or at least a National Commission on Electoral Reform, arguing FPTP is unfit for a multi-party political landscape.
@appgfairelections.bsky.social and Make Votes Matter are among those planning to keep up the fight."
@josiahmortimer.bsky.social
"They've called it the Representation of the People Bill but they're refusing to let the people actually be represented."
Well said, @femi-oluwole.bsky.social 👏👏👏
🗳️"I think this Bill would have been a great opportunity to have a kind of commission... to make sure that people feel that their vote counts."
📣 @catsmithmp.bsky.social used her speech in the Representation of the People Bill debate to endorse our plan for a National Commission on Electoral Reform.
This Bill does not touch on electoral reform however. I'm calling on the Government to establish an electoral commission to look at alternatives to First Past the Post.
People should be able to vote for the best person, not the best guess. (3/3)
"If we stick with First Past the Post under an increasingly fractured multi-party political landscape, we have a very real risk of the next general election results looking much like a random number generator."
Well said @rozsavage.bsky.social 👏👏👏
📜 The House of Commons just debated the Representation of the People Bill
💥 Great to see more Labour MPs joining the call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform
📺 @patrickhurley.bsky.social @catsmithmp.bsky.social @chriscurtis94.bsky.social & @jamesnaish.bsky.social
🌹 #Labour4PR
🗳️ "We can do better than fighting elections on the basis of the best worst option."
👏 "I want to put on record my support for the work of the APPG for Fair Elections and to urge ministers to look at the call for some form of National Commission on Electoral Reform."
@jamesnaish.bsky.social
⚖️ "It's the principled thing to do, to ensure every vote counts equally."
💬 Our Vice-Chair @elliechowns.bsky.social also used the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill to call for electoral reform.
💯 Most of the public agree: our voting system urgently needs an update.
🗳️"Our First Past the Post voting system was outdated decades ago, [it's] a millstone around the neck of our democratic life."
💬 Our Vice-Chair @lisasmartmp.bsky.social during last night's Second Reading debate of the Representation of the People Bill 👇
Today is the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill.
It's an important bill - it's just a shame it does nothing to change the voting system that leaves millions of people without representation 👀
We went to Westminster to speak to MPs about this. Our CEO Emma Harrison explains 👇
"While votes at 16 is a genuinely historic step, how motivated will young voters feel when, for so many, their vote will almost certainly change nothing?
The most powerful thing we could do to engage all voters is to give them a system in which their votes actually matter."
Well said 👇
The Representation of the People Bill will have its Second Reading today.
While it includes some necessary measures, our position is clear:
It won't fix our broken democracy without reforming the very voting system that leaves millions of people unrepresented.
Scrap FPTP now.
