Petition Hold a referendum on changing the voting system to Proportional Representation.

Most governments within the UK are not true majorities.
The current system (First Past the Post) also encourages:
- tactical voting - which converges the choice of parties down to two.
- changing boundaries which enables parties in power to manipulate in order to keep power.

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There are already Proportional representation systems within UK democracy; both the Scottish and European parliaments use (different) systems of Proportional Representation.

The problems with First Past the Post Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Mixed Member representation explained
https://youtu.be/QT0I-sdoSXU

Single Transferable Vote explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI

Why UK election results are the worst in History
https://youtu.be/r9rGX91rq5I

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

646 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 646 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 25 May 2016
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