The current electoral system in the UK is probably unfair to minor parties who may have a large proportion of votes nationally, but do not have any overall majorities in their constituencies.
The current coalition government aims to reform this system so that MPs sit in the House of Commons based on the overall % of votes that their party received.
This would mean a loss of the direct relationship between MPs and constituencies where each MP represents their local area. However, it may result in a more mixed house of commons with more representation of the Green Party, UKIP, BNP etc
Would that hinder the decision making process? There would be a greater risk of no one party having an overall majority in the future and result in more coalition governments... Would that mean second opinions will be given more consideration?
Also, the House of Lords is currently made up of about 100 hereditary Lords and about 600 peers who are appointed by the PM but not democratically elected... does this provide scope for legislative corruption? or does the permanency of their positions allow them to make unpopular decisions without fear of reprisal?



Any thoughts?
bit of a nerdy topic, i suppose...

I should point out there are a few inaccuracies here. The current coalition government is not aiming to move to a more proportional system for the house of commons. What has been agreed in the coalition program is that the coalition will vote through a referendum on AV (the alternative vote system) as opposed to our current FPTP (first past the post) system. And it's likely that the Conservatives will campaign for a "NO" vote in that referendum anyway.

AV is not a proportional system, it's a modified version of FPTP which aims to reduce some of the problems caused by parties winning a lot of marginal seats - meaning they get a lot of MPs with a relatively small proportion of the vote. That being said, there is still plenty of scope for very un-proportional results from the AV system.

Some parties have hinted that maybe AV-Plus would be an acceptable compromise for a referendum, but not the Conservatives (who aren't in favour of any change generally), that is partially proportional through use op "top-up" seats. You would vote in your local MPs as usual, but then there would be a set number of these "top-up" MPs which are used to move the parties seats in the commons closer to the proportion of votes they got.

What the Liberal Democrats want is the only really proportional system (but still not directly proportional), and that's the STV (single transferable vote) system. But that isn't on the table for the commons at all.

Now, where the coalition /is/ thinking of bringing in proportionality is in the house of lords, there's meant to be some early draft legislation before the end of the year I think, and it seems likely that they will propose that either most or all of the second chamber should be proportionally elected. There was quite a good discussion about house of lords reform a while ago, let's see if I can find the link.

Here it is: http://www.zymic.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18462

oh,
sorry i missed that thread
apologies.

It was from some time ago, don't worry about it.

Electoral reform is change in electoral systems to improve how public desires are expressed in election results...From Wikipedia

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