The House of Commons backed using proportional representation (PR) at general elections in a surprise symbolic vote on Tuesday. Almost 60 Labour MPs supported a plan put forward by Sarah Olney, a ...

The proposal for a bicameral legislature was premised on the assumption that the lower house, with 300 MPs, would retain the ...

With an increasingly polarized Congress and fewer competitive elections, there are growing calls among some election reformers to change how voters elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

In American politics, the people are supposed to choose their leaders. However, in state after state, it’s increasingly the opposite: politicians choose their voters. The evidence of democratic ...

In the 1920s and early ’30s, a movement experiment with PR grew in New York. When proportional representation was adopted in ...

Democracy, in the immortal words of President Abraham Lincoln, is a government of the people, by the people, for the people. This pithy description makes democracy a sacrosanct concept that endures ...

California’s congressional districts, like most across the country, operate under a winner-take-all, single-member model.

Washington’s venerable Redistricting Commission process is disintegrating. Partisanship is threatening to draw us into the same gerrymandering we see across the country. However, a simple fix to state ...

It’s almost been a month since Labour’s historic election victory, which sparked renewed conversation about electoral reform. Even a fleeting glance at July’s election results confirms Britain’s first ...

The decision on whether the national election will be held under the proportional representation (PR) system will be made by ...