Electoral System Is Crying Out for Reform ; Points of View Because What You Think Matters to Us
Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › September 08, 2009
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IF you want to understand what is wrong with Britain's electoral system you have to go back 150 years to the last major constitutional change, the Equalisation Act.
Britain's constitution has been slowly evolving ever since the Magna Carta. The problem that the Equalisation Act sought to resolve was that parliamentary constituencies were of unequal size. An MP for a small rural seat might only need a few dozen votes to get elected (these were known as rotten boroughs) while the MP for a large urban seat might need thousands of votes to be elected.See the full content of this document
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Electoral System Is Crying Out for Reform ; Points of View Because What You Think Matters to Us
The Boundaries Commission was set up and the boundaries redrawn to ensure that each constituency had a roughly eq...
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