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Today MPs launched the cross-party group for fair elections in parliament 🗳️
Liberal Democrat MP Lisa Smart is the group's vice chair 🔶
Let's end First Past the Post and bring on Proportional Representation 👐
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR
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Liberal Democrats for Electoral Reform (LibDem4ER) is the home for Liberal Democrats who want a truly democratic voting system. https://t.co/hwF6V7kQNt
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR retweetledi
British democracy cannot become a plaything for foreign governments and their billionaire cronies.
MPs who care about protecting the integrity of our democracy should back our amendments to help close this loophole.
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@HinaBokhariLD writes: "As a Liberal Democrat, I’ve always been a supporter of Proportional Representation. It’s one of the things that really unites our party because it gets to the heart of who actually gets to have a say in our democracy."
#MakeVotesMatter
Make Votes Matter@MakeVotesMatter
Happy International Women's Day! ✊💃 Studies show that countries with proportional voting systems tend to have more women's representation in parliament. We spoke to three campaigners, representing three generations of women, about why they support PR: makevotesmatter.org.uk/news/2026/3/6/…
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... and thanks to First Past The Post, Farage could be Prime Minister on only 30% of the vote. We need electoral reform.
Ed Davey@EdwardJDavey
I see Farage is off to Mar-a-Lago to talk down Britain and suck up to Trump. There's nothing patriotic about cheering on a foreign leader whose illegal war is sending British families’ energy bills through the roof.
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Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @FinancialTimes
"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.
First Past the Post achieves neither."
Time to scrap FPTP!
ft.com/content/38d83f…
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR retweetledi
It will cause unnecessary chaos and destabilise politics.
It's too complicated, people wouldn't know how to vote.
It's not a priority right now.
Those were some of the arguments used over a century ago against giving women the vote. Sounds familiar?
derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/opinion/o…
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR retweetledi
💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @FinancialTimes:
"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.
First Past the Post achieves neither."
👏👏👏
ft.com/content/38d83f…
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR retweetledi
📑 In his speech about the Representation of the People Bill, @OllyGloverLD quoted an open letter from 50+ academics, warning about the dangers of FPTP.
➡️ Read it here: politicshome.com/news/article/a…
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR retweetledi
During the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill, MP after MP got up to point out what's missing from it: fixing the voting system.
The problems with FPTP can no longer be ignored - and neither can the growing calls for PR. 📣
Here are just a few highlights:
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR retweetledi
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📝OUT NOW
In 2029, Reform UK could win on under 30% of the vote according to some polls. Our new research paper shows our voting system has a hand in this.
Read more & find out why electoral reform is not a nice-to-have, but an emergency.
#ukpolitics #PR #FPTP #VotingSystem
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR retweetledi
"Numerous MPs across parties called for a move to PR, or a National Commission on Electoral Reform, arguing FPTP is unfit for a multi-party political landscape.
@FairElectionsUK and Make Votes Matter are among those planning to keep up the fight." 💯👏
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/04/11-…
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR retweetledi
💬 Sarah Olney MP reminded the House that MPs had voted for her Proportional Representation Bill in December 2024.
❌ Inside and outside of Parliament, there is a growing acknowledgment that our voting system is not fit for purpose.
⏰ It's time to consider the alternatives.
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@OllyGloverLD, the President of LDER, gives very compelling arguments for why #ProportionalRepresentation should be included in the Representation of the People Bill.
Time to scrap First-Past-The-Post!
Olly Glover MP 🔶@OllyGloverLD
📷The Representation of the People Bill strives to make fundamental changes to the voting system through electoral reform. The Lib Dems have long called for proportional representation to restore faith in our political system and enhance the integrity of British democracy.
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR retweetledi
🧨“The Government’s refusal to look at Proportional Representation is dangerously short-sighted.”
@BrendanOHaraMP eloquently warns of the possibility that Reform may win majority power in 2029 on barely 30% of the vote if #FirstPastThePost stays.
#ElectoralReform #Democracy
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR retweetledi
📜 The @HouseofCommons just debated the Representation of the People Bill
💥 Great to see more Labour MPs joining the call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform
📺 @patrick_hurley @CatSmithMP Chris Curtis & @jamesnaish @jameswnaish
🌹 #Labour4PR
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR retweetledi
🗳️"Our First Past the Post voting system was outdated decades ago, [it's] a millstone around the neck of our democratic life."
💬 Our Vice-Chair @LisaSmartMP during last night's Second Reading debate of the Representation of the People Bill 👇
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR retweetledi
Today is the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill.
It's a shame it does nothing to change the voting system that leaves millions of people without representation 👀
We went to Westminster to speak to MPs about this. Our CEO @Emma_Campaigner explains 👇
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Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR retweetledi
🚨 "Large groups of permanently unrepresented voters create fertile ground for anger and extremism."
🗯️ Powerful speech by @roz_savage about the risks of sticking with FPTP in our fragmented and polarised reality.
👉 The Representation of the People Bill must address this.
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You can also sign the petition asking Keir Starmer to scrap FPTP:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/the-…
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"If casting a vote starts to feel more like participating in a lottery than making a positive and principled decision, then voters are going to become ever more frustrated." First Past the Post needs to go - ask your MP to include it in the new Bill.
instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gorton…
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