Petition Tackle the democratic deficit in local councils that leads to one-party states

The government should address the democratic deficit in local councils caused by first-past-the-post which has led to councils like Lewisham, where the ruling party holds all the seat despite just under 40% of people voting for a different party; and elsewhere has led to cases of alleged corruption.

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The government must ensure healthy local democracies by providing more democratic and representative councils by doing one of the following.

1. Changing electoral system to STV.
2. Reserving 1/3 of council seats for the opposition, distributed proportional according to their share of the vote.
3. Making wards multi-member, elected at the same cycle, but with less votes than seats.
4. Making wards are multi-member, elected in a single cycle, but preventing parties for standing for all its seats.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

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Date closed 24 November 2021
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