Get PR Done!

Keith Best: Conservative pragmatists should embrace electoral reform | Conservative Home In the local elections, Reform UK gained 40 per cent of council seats on just over 30 per cent of the vote.

"Looking to our own history, backing electoral reform would be a pragmatic Conservative step."

Cross-party support for fixing the voting system is growing. Even most Conservative voters now back it.

It's time to give everyone a fair voice in Westminster.

PR is no longer unthinkable Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, but if and when Labour members pick the next PM, electoral reform could become unavoidable

Turkeys don’t usually vote for Christmas, and governing parties don’t usually vote for proportional representation. But Reform’s rise could change that, writes @tom-clark.bsky.social.
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"You know what's going to come out of all this? - An end to the First Past the Post electoral system." 💪 #GetPRDone

Great to see that Jeremy Corbyn seems to now favour a proportional representation voting system.
#getPRdone

We hope he's right. Latest polling shows that 60% of the British public want to change the voting system.

But this won't happen without a grassroots movement organising to demand it.

Join us to be part of it: makevotesmatter.org.uk/join-the-mov...

Short cut to what Jeremy Corbyn had to say on the electoral system.

It’s great to see that he now supports a proportional representation voting system.
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“You know what's going to come out of all this? - An end to the First Past the Post electoral system." Jeremy Corbyn 💪 #GetPRDone

"You know what's going to come out of all this? - An end to the First Past the Post electoral system." 💪 #GetPRDone

Scrapping First Past the Post for mayoral elections is progress – but it's frustrating the Government won’t extend the same fairness to general elections.

👇With strong public and MP support for PR, I pressed the Minister on why it’s not being used for both.

🗳This tool highlights that under the first-post-the-post voting system, the seats won for each party, on similar votes shares, can vary disproportionality due to its post-code lottery nature

⚠️ FPTP can deliver some parties a majority & 💯% power with ➖30% of votes cast
#getPRdone

Andy Burnham: These Dangerous, Alienating Times Call for Radical Change of Our Politics From imposter syndrome and proportional representation, to fixing the fundamentals and the 'incestuous' Westminster media-political class – Labour’s Greater Manchester Mayor believes the right can be ...

Andy Burnham: These Dangerous, Alienating Times Call for Radical Change of Our Politics –

“But also proportional representation or a political system that represents the majority view, rather than sometimes the minority view, as it currently does.”

bylinetimes.com/2025/07/19/a...

Electoral reform: great steps forward The government's announcements on electoral reform are excellent, but must only be the start

Electoral reform: great steps forward
The government's announcements on electoral reform are excellent, but must only be the start

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Even the Tories now admit that our electoral system is toxic. When will Labour have the guts to fix it? | Polly Toynbee Giving 16-year-olds the vote is good, not least to stop the rightward lurch, but real change would mean scrapping first past the post, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

#getPRdone

“Though lowering the voting age was a manifesto promise, real electoral reform was nowhere in the manifesto. Real reform would mean abolishing the broken, discredited, untrusted and unsafe first-past-the-post system.”

@pollytoynbee.bsky.social

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Readers' letters: Lower the voting age, but make sure all votes count Readers have differing opinions over Labour’s changes to electoral law, such as reducing the voting age to 16

‘Lower the voting age, but make sure all votes count’

“The Scottish and Welsh parliaments have adopted, successfully, a form of PR, ensuring that our votes really matter. Surely it’s well past the time for the Westminster parliament to catch up ..”
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Wow! 😳
A first-past-the-post (#FPTP) moment.

🪑 21.7% wins the seat!

😅Just 0.6% of votes between 1st & 2nd place

5️⃣ 5 parties in double figures

🗳 Only 12.7% points between the 1st & the 6th placed party.

⏳Time to
GET PR DONE!
#getPRdone
#ProportionalRepresentation

Readers' letters: Lower the voting age, but make sure all votes count Readers have differing opinions over Labour’s changes to electoral law, such as reducing the voting age to 16

‘Lower the voting age, but make sure all votes count’

“The Scottish and Welsh parliaments have adopted, successfully, a form of PR, ensuring that our votes really matter. Surely it’s well past the time for the Westminster parliament to catch up ..”
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www.scotsman.com/news/readers...

Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections

Labour’s plans:

✅ Votes at 16
✅ Automated Voter Registration
✅ Democratic Engagement
✅ Improving ID

“A key part of democracy is making sure everyone has a voice.”
AngelaRayner
Labour Party

❌ But no plans for a Proportional voting system for Westminster 🤷‍♂️

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Wow! 😳
A first-past-the-post (#FPTP) moment.

🪑 21.7% wins the seat!

😅Just 0.6% of votes between 1st & 2nd place

5️⃣ 5 parties in double figures

🗳 Only 12.7% points between the 1st & the 6th placed party.

⏳Time to
GET PR DONE!
#getPRdone
#ProportionalRepresentation

Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections

Labour’s plans:

✅ Votes at 16
✅ Automated Voter Registration
✅ Democratic Engagement
✅ Improving ID

“A key part of democracy is making sure everyone has a voice.”
AngelaRayner
Labour Party

❌ But no plans for a Proportional voting system for Westminster 🤷‍♂️

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Naomi Smith, CEO of B4B: "The elephant in the room is our ridiculous voting system that creates these very broad coalitions of parties."

Watch here ⬇️

⚠️ "Mayors serve many millions of people and manage multi-million pound budgets, yet can be elected by just a fraction of the vote"

💯 Angela Rayner is right that politicians should not be elected to important offices by First Past the Post

⚖ The same is true of MPs

BREAKING: The Speaker has granted an Urgent Question on the Government's 'Strategy for Elections'

MPs will have the opportunity to ask the Minister about their proposals for democratic reform, due to be published today, in the coming minutes...

Without electoral reform, Reform might, on the basis of current opinion polls, take most seats in parliament in 2029 with about one-third of the votes. The case for proportional representation is overwhelming in that case, but will Labour deliver it? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...

'First past the post is corroding trust in politics. The government must make all elections fit for the future' - LabourList Labour is right that FPTP is corroding trust in politics and is right to address this in mayoral and PCC elections. When the Government sets out its proposals for political reform, it must do the righ...

“Labour is right that FPTP is corroding trust in politics and is right to address this in mayoral elections . When the Govt. sets out its proposals for political reform, it must do the right thing again and make our general elections “fit for the future”.

labourlist.org/2025/07/firs...

'First past the post is corroding trust in politics. The government must make all elections fit for the future' - LabourList Labour is right that FPTP is corroding trust in politics and is right to address this in mayoral and PCC elections. When the Government sets out its proposals for political reform, it must do the righ...

“Labour is right that FPTP is corroding trust in politics and is right to address this in mayoral elections . When the Govt. sets out its proposals for political reform, it must do the right thing again and make our general elections “fit for the future”.

labourlist.org/2025/07/firs...

Great to hear that the government plan to scrap the first-past-the-post voting system for mayoral elections and reintroduce the Supplementry Vote. 🗳👏

Now it’s time to scrap #FPTP for Westminster elections and introduce a #ProportionalRepresentation voting system.🗳
#getPRdone

Medium shot photo of Artist Sean Henry's 'Catafalque (lying man)' on a iron oxide plinth outside the tower blocks in central Woking. A sculpture of a giant man asleep with his knees raised. MVMNORTHWESTSURREY have placed a placard with the following phrase at the figure's legs: "WAKE-UP STARMER!!! NO MORE FIRST PAST THE POST ELECTIONS. PR NOW!!" Part of the local group's contribution to the Democracy Action weekend - marking one year since the most disproportional election in UK history.

Wide shot photo of Artist Sean Henry's 'Catafalque (lying man)' on a iron oxide plinth outside the tower blocks in central Woking. A sculpture of a giant man asleep with his knees raised. Six MVMNORTHWESTSURREY supporters are posing around the sculpture with a huge banner with the phrase "TRUST THE PEOPLE MAKE VOTES MATTER". One is holding a placard with the following phrase at the figure's legs: "WAKE-UP STARMER!!! NO MORE FIRST PAST THE POST ELECTIONS. PR NOW!!". Part of the local group's contribution to the Democracy Action weekend - marking one year since the most disproportional election in UK history.

!WAKE UP!
!WAKE UP!
@keirstarmer.bsky.social !!

Don't keep our broken First Past the Post electoral system.
It doesn't work for *any* party & will split & waste even more votes.
#distrust & #alienation

We need a national commission now!

@makevotesmatter.bsky.social
@appgfairelections.bsky.social

One year on from the General Election, the case for fair votes is stronger than ever The fourth of July marks one year since the General Election of 2024. That election saw the most disproportional outcome in United Kingdom (UK) electoral history, with Labour winning a l

The case for fair votes has never been clearer. From the record-breaking disproportionality of the 2024 General Election to the continued distortion of local election outcomes in 2025, First Past the Post is failing a multi-party Britain. electoral-reform.org.uk/one-year-on-...

Great speeches. Great Rally.
Momentum is with us!
We will keep on pushing for electoral system change to Proportional Representation.
#PRnow

Yesterday in Manchester!

Thank you to everyone who showed up to the Rally for Real Democracy.

People are fed up with a voting system that distorts public opinion and leaves millions unrepresented. It's time for change.

#PRnow

'We need to transform politics and bring the trust back' I’M passionate about public service, being the best MP I can possibly be and doing all I can to rebuild people’s trust in politics.

"This isn’t a side issue — it goes to the heart of the public’s faith in democracy. When millions of people feel their voices haven’t been heard it’s no surprise trust in politics continues to decline."

✍️ APPG Vice Chair @elliechowns.bsky.social