FW: ERS News: John Major questions the ‘validity’ of First Past the Post

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Subject: ERS News: John Major questions the ‘validity’ of First Past the Post

 

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Dear Roger, We have four articles for the four-day weekend in this edition of ERS News. Mike reports on John Major’s recent intervention while Ian has been looking at the polling published across March. Elections are coming up in parts of England, as well as Scotland and Wales, on May 7th. The election of the Senedd – the Welsh parliament – will be done under a new voting system, so ERS Cymru’s Jess Blair has explained how it will work. All the best Doug Cowan Head of Digital   Former Prime Minister John Major questions the ‘validity’ of First Past the Post There has been a significant intervention in the debate around electoral reform recently, in the guise of Conservative former prime minister John Major. Read the article →   Polling breakdown from March 2026: Latest polls see continued fragmentation The year since has seen the continuation of a trend decades in the making but which has now reached unprecedented levels: the breakdown of the UK’s post-war two-party political system and its replacement with a multi-party system, which is the norm throughout Europe. Read the article →   There is a new way of voting at the Senedd election this May. How does it work? Whatever happens in May, the next Senedd election is set to be historic. Read the article →   While the UK is making voting more accessible, the US is cracking down The US President has argued the Bill is a way to safeguard American elections, while opponents are fighting it to… safeguard American elections. Read the article →

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