For the first time, Make Votes Matter is coordinating a major push to get the Labour Party to debate and carry a motion on electoral reform at this year’s Labour conference.
Read MoreWith just two months to go and the field cut down to four, here’s where the Labour Leadership candidates stand on Proportional Representation…
Read MoreFind out what the movement for Proportional Representation has planned for 2020!
Read MoreWhat we know so far about where the Labour Leadership candidates stand on Proportional Representation.
Read MoreThe votes have been counted and we can now reveal that the first general election to be held in winter since 1923 has resulted in… yet another disproportionate outcome.
Read MoreIt's election day! Whatever you do today, make sure you vote, with your head and your heart.
Our polling shows that 35 per cent of people are likely to vote tactically in the general election. This is a symptom of our out-of-date, ‘one-party-takes-all’ system.
Read MoreThe Question Time special saw 20 minutes devoted solely to electoral reform. Seven parties had the opportunity to respond. Here’s what they said…
Read MoreWith polling day rapidly approaching this Thursday, we wanted to let you know what we've been up to over the last week in the campaign for Proportional Representation.
Thank you so much once again if you've contributed to our Crowdfunder, which is still live. If you haven't yet, please consider chipping in to help us reach our stretch target - and make sure we can come out swinging whatever the election result.
Read MoreToday, Thursday 5th December, is Democracy Day! More than 20 campaigns have joined forces in an unprecedented effort to call out the ‘radio silence’ on reforming the voting system. Rarely have so many organisations come together at election time to shine the spotlight on such a crucial issue.
This network of democracy organisations is calling for parties, activists, and the media to use Thursday 5th December as a key date in the electoral calendar to discuss the ‘elephant in the polling booth’ – the need to reform how politics works in Britain.
Read MoreKathrine Santos is a long-time campaigner for Proportional Representation (PR). She’s an active member of the Make Votes Matter East London group, and regularly takes part in street stalls and other awareness-raising activities to shine a light on why we need PR.
When she spotted gender equality and women’s rights group the Fawcett Society were planning an annual conference called Courage Calls, she leapt at the chance to represent Make Votes Matter at the event.
The conference was held on a cold winter’s day at the end of November, but Kathrine found it to be a heart-warming experience. She tells us how the day went and what she got out of.
Read MoreAs we hurtle towards election day, another batch of manifestos have been published. And, as ever, we've been looking out for the parties' policies on Proportional Representation.
Here, we take a look at what the manifestos say about changing the voting system, and where we might go from here in the fight to win fair votes. Missed the manifestos already published? Check out our blog to get up to speed on the latest from all the parties.
Read MoreWith just three weeks to go until the general election, we've seen a spate of parties publish their manifestos lately - setting out policies on everything from broadband to bus services.
What we want to know, of course, are their policies on Proportional Representation - and how we can win fair votes for the UK.
Read MoreIf you’re wondering how to find out whether your general election candidates are fans of Proportional Representation (PR), then we’ve got it covered with our #PledgeForPR campaign. You can easily ask your local candidates if they want to bring in a fair voting system, or if they want to keep our undemocratic First Past the Post system.
And if you’re standing as a candidate and you want to see PR introduced simply take the pledge and show your support for PR!
Read MoreFrom training to be a primary school teacher to having joined Make Votes Matter as a campaigner for fair votes, Caroline Osborne says she now feels like she has landed the perfect job.
She was among a delegation of Make Votes Matter representatives in central London on Saturday 16th November; their mission was to hand in an open letter to the Labour Party during their general election manifesto meeting. The letter, signed by Labour parliamentary candidates, peers, celebrities and more than 9,000 activists calls on the party to commit to electoral reform. The team then headed to Downing Street to hand in a separate letter calling on the Conservatives to support Proportional Representation.
Caroline shares her story on what it’s like working at Make Votes Matter.
Read MoreAhead of manifesto launches, we wrote to Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn to call for Proportional Representation…
Read MoreWith politics in chaos, the next general election could be the last in British history to be held under First Past the Post. Help us win Proportional Representation (PR) by donating to our Crowdfunder today!
Read MoreOver the summer, Daniel Johnson worked at MVM HQ in Bristol as our resident intern.
Here, Daniel reflects on the experience and highlights some of his favourite projects he worked on. And as Daniel returns to university in Manchester, we have welcomed our latest intern to the team. Barthélemy Desprairies, aka Barth, travelled from Strasbourg in France to join us.
Read MoreIn this month’s local groups’ Q&A, we speak to Laurie Taylor (pictured above) who runs Make Votes Matter Totnes.
Here, Laurie shines a light on some campaign successes in and around Totnes.
Read MorePeterloo 200: The path to Proportional Representation draws on evidence from academics to make the case that the democratic inequality caused by First Past the Post has created in the UK one of the most unequal societies anywhere in the developed world. It is increasingly clear that Proportional Representation is not only more democratic, but it is essential for creating an equal society that can rise to the challenges of the 21st century.
Read MoreThis year marks the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre: a crucial event in Britain’s difficult path to democracy that is often woefully under-acknowledged. To commemorate the event, Make Votes Matter is launching a new report and taking part in a series of events where we will make the case that in memory of those who died at Peterloo, we must continue the fight for a better democracy in the 21st Century.
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