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Should the UK reform its Electoral System for General Elections?
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Should the UK reform its Electoral System for General Elections? Nardeep Sehra In the UK the current voting system for electing MP's to the House of Commons is called First Post the Post. Within the UK alone there are 659 separate constituencies across the UK each electing only one single Member of Parliament. Different voting systems were used within the UK up to 1950. Then in the years after there have been many other, sometimes fairer voting systems like the Single Transferable Vote (STV) used in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, or the Alternative Vote (AV) used in Australia. Despite the fact of their being easier voting systems, first past the post is still an easy system to understand. The voter can express their own opinion as to which party should form the next government. The system tends to lead to a two party system; the system produces single party...
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