Change the voting system to proportional representation, dump FPTP

Closed 47 signatures

What the petition asks

Proportional representation means that vote share in the population matches the amount of seats each party gets in an election. First past the post creates a huge disparity between vote share and seats in the House of Commons, with parties receiving millions of votes and just one seat. Details below

2015 Election:

•Conservatives - 331 seats, 11,334,226 votes (36.9%)

•Labour - 232 seats, 9,347,273 votes (30.4%)

•UKIP - 1 seat, 3,881,099votes (12.6%)

•Liberal Democrats - 8 seats, 2,415,916 votes (7.9%)

•Green Party - 1 seat, 1,57,630 votes (3.8%)

2017 Election:

•Conservatives - 318 seats, 13,636,684 votes (42.4%)

•Labour - 262 seats, 12,877,918 votes (40.0%)

•Lib Dems - 12 seats, 2,371,861 votes (7.4%)

•UKIP - 0 seats, 594,068 votes (1.8%)

bbc.co.uk/news/election/2017/results

Timeline

31 Jul 2018	Petition opened for signatures
31 Jan 2019	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 47

Status Closed

Opened 31 Jul 2018

Closed 31 Jan 2019

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