#electoralreform

So Labour got 3,650 more votes than National and six fewer seats. Cool system. 131-seat parliament. Eleven overhang. National won 42 electorates on 29% of the vote: seven seats they weren't entitled to. TPM got four more the same way. Worst result in thirty years of MMP. TOP cleared 5% for the first time and got seven seats. Proof the party vote works when you let it. Also proof the threshold nearly killed a party three elections running for no reason. Wrote up a fix before the election, ran the actual results through it over the weekend. STV list seats, provincial electorates instead of 71 tiny ones, mana whenua seats that can't be singled out because they're structurally identical to every other seat. Three preference-transfer scenarios. All three produce the same seat count. Charts, data, R code: https://codeberg.org/aenertia/nz-electoral-reform/src/branch/main/analysis/provisional-results.md CC-BY-4.0. Have at it. #nzpol #Election2026 #ElectoralReform #MMP #Aotearoa

Tired of cups of tea and old boys club call outs? The Māori roll opt-in model already works. Extend it to everyone. One roll: ~17 provincial electorates (Northland, Canterbury, Taranaki. Not Epsom) alongside existing Māori seats. Same mechanism, same mana. Don't want an electorate? Stay on general, rank your party vote. One ballot. Actually simpler than MMP. No Epsom. No overhang. No parachute candidates. Can't run "abolish Māori seats" when they're structurally identical to the Southland seat. The Māori roll becomes the model, not the exception. 96 STV list seats handle proportionality. Electorates are for community voice. West Coast gets a champion at 32K people. Number the boxes. Done. #nzpol #Election2026 #ElectoralReform #ManaWhenua

If a cap on political donations was part of your agenda for electoral reform in the UK, then I'm afraid you're about to be disappointed by the gap between previous 'commitments' by Andy Burnham & the reality of his political actions.... I'm starting to see a pattern emerging. #politics #ElectoralReform

There's a fascinating graphic in the #Guardian on #ElectoralReform.

Ontario PR supporters: here is a concrete action. If you support proportional representation and are eligible to join the Ontario Liberal Party, join through the official OLP page: https://action.ontarioliberal.ca/f/join Then contact EVERY leadership candidate. Tell them you joined and that support for PR and cross-party cooperation will influence your leadership vote. 2/3 Eric Lombardi https://ericforolp.ca team@ericlombardi.ca Dylan Marando https://votefordylan.ca info@votefordylan.ca Lee Fairclough https://leefairclough.ca info@leefairclough.ca Navdeep Bains https://navdeepbains.ca contact@navdeepbains.ca Stephanie Bowman https://stephaniebowman.ca sbowman.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org Candidate positions are still evolving. That makes now the time to push. A quiet supporter is easy to overlook. An organized bloc of new members writing every campaign is not. #ProRep #Democracy#ProportionalRepresentation #ElectoralReform #ONpoli

My #Burnaby #LiberalMP (whom my wife and I voted in to prevent #PierrePoilievre being elected PM) hasn’t replied to any of my past emails, which are all highly critical of his government’s backtracking on climate and species at risk protections as well as privacy concerns. Instead, #WadeChang bombards us with glossy propagandist brochures of himself posing with local groups, all virtue signalling to cover over up his turncoat Liberal’s traitorous right wing lurch. One such picture is with our local wildlife rescue group. Imagine taking a smiling group photo with those rehabilitating the species at risk harmed by your own unethical, deregulated dirty oil projects?! These #CarneyLiberals assume we are all gullable idiots. I rip up his flashy brochures and recycle them, as they are just another waste of money and resources selling us yet another Liberal lie. Wade Chang will lose his next election to #Conservatives in large part due to Mark Carney’s selloff of our “left wing #antifa climate terrorist” interests. I will never be voting strategically again, at this point it is #electoralreform or bust for me. These short sighted, virtue signalling #Liberals will lose their majority and countless future elections by jettisoning their strategic leftwing supporters. I now believe #Canada deserves it’s true Right Wing Conservative government, enough of this neo-con Mark Carney masquerading as a Liberal. All you Climate Destroying Liberal supporters deserve #PierrePoilievre as PM. If I could only take back my worthless “elbows up liberal” vote... #FuckMarkCarney #FuckWadeChang #FuckLiberals #VotingReformNow #cdnpoli #bcpoli #leftbehind #elbowsdown

For #uk folk… Tomorrow, Open Britain, who are working incredibly hard on cleaning up #ukpolitics #ukpol present this petition to Downing Street calling for the establishment of a National Commission on #electoralreform to report to Parliament in time to introduce change before #GE29 Given #burnham has long called for new ways of doing #politics this might be the best opportunity for a generation to kick dirty money out of #elections & introduce #fairvotes Please sign

Also, 60 per cent vote. It is a less robust democracy in terms of its structures than Australia, where we have compulsory voting, preferential voting. These things are rare. We have an electoral commission that deals with gerrymandering. We have limits on political donations, so companies cannot, as they can in the States, effectively buy a politician to represent them. And we are not such a religious country, so we don't have faith in prayer. We want practical, real solutions.  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-25/anna-funder-interview-books-stasiland-wifedom/106918372 #ElectoralReform #CancelWestminster

FPTP: a proud tradition of turning millions of votes into discarded marbles under the couch. Time for a change. To a system where every single ballot cast actually matters. #ElectoralReform #ProportionalRepresentation #FairVote #cdnpoli #UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

Two individuals account for a third of all #PoliticalDonations in latest release https://electoral-reform.org.uk/two-individuals-account-for-a-third-of-all-political-donations-in-latest-release/ Electoral Reform Society – ERS #ElectoralReform #donations #election