Nick Clegg is trying to push through a referendum on an Alternative Vote system. By Derek McGovern 00:00, 9 Jul 2010 Updated11:40, 4 Feb 2012 ...

Countries that elect their policy-makers by means of Plurality Voting tend to have a two-party system. This observation can be explained by the strategic behavior of voters. This article derives two ...

A referendum on changing Westminster's voting system will take place on 5 May after MPs finally managed to get their bill through Parliament. It could mean the alternative voting system is ...

In 2010, Brown offered Clegg the Alternative Vote system without a referendum, but it was too late, and Clegg naively assumed that he would win the referendum that Cameron had already offered.

Prime Minister David Cameron has branded the alternative vote (AV) system "undemocratic, obscure, unfair and crazy", ahead of May's referendum on changing the way MPs are elected to Westminster.

There are two common ranked ballot voting systems, Single Transferable Vote, (STV), and Alternative Voting, (AV). In both of these systems, voters rank their preferences thus: 1 for first choice, 2 ...

At the moment MPs are picked using the first-past-the-post system, where whoever gets the highest number of votes in each constituency wins. That could change to the Alternative Vote or AV system.

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, will be among those campaigning for a “Yes” vote, but the crossparty No to AV group claims 114 Labour MPs support their negative view.

I am unsure if the alternative vote will be any more representative than the current system, it would cost more than £250m, and it is worrying that there are only three other countries in the ...