Electoral Reform

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The options provided give an idea of what future electoral reform could look like. All are based on current constituency boundaries but with nearby constituencies combined in different ways to mimic PR systems currently used other countries.

The example systems provided are all based on the current electoral systems in use in other modern democracies. We measure the Gallagher Index for each result to show how close it is to the wishes of voters and the Effective Number of Parties to show how divided the results are.

The difference between Open and Closed Lists is not distinguished here. In the real world, Closed lists allow parties to pick the order of their candidates whilst Open lists let voters override the party's preferred order. This can change which person wins a seat, but not which party they are from.

There is no perfect way of undoing tactical voting, but we have taken some steps to do so. Regardless, PR systems are designed to create results which are reflective of the overall vote share so by changing the input you effectively override tactical voting overall, if not in each constituency.

England Voting Intention

Labour
Conservatives
Reform
Liberal Democrats
Greens
Restore
Other

Northern Ireland Voting Intention

DUP
Sinn Féin
UUP
SDLP
Alliance
TUV
Green
PBP
Aontú

Scotland Voting Intention

List Polls

SNP
Conservatives
Labour
Greens
Liberal Democrats
Reform

Wales Voting Intention

Labour
Conservatives
Plaid Cymru
Lib Dems
Greens
Reform
Other

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Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University of London