general election 2010

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Casting a shadow: Most Lib Dems back Clegg's tactics
90% of Lib Dems back Tory talks

By politics.co.uk staff A surprisingly high number of Liberal Democrat members back Nick Clegg’s decision to enter into talks with the Conservatives. But the survey of 350 party members, conducted by Lib Dem Voice, found 80% of respondents believed progress on electoral reform should be a “deal-breaker”. Eighty-nine per cent of members backed Mr Clegg’s… Read more »

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Dif'rent strokes: different voting systems would leave parliament looking very changed
Activists outline how electoral reform would hit Westminster

By Aled Thomas Thursday’s election would have delivered radically different results if the voting system had been different, new research suggests. The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) has published research which translates votes in the general election to seats under two different voting systems, Alternative Vote (AV) and Single Transferrable Vote (STV). The current system gave… Read more »