Letters: Readers respond to Gaby Hinsliff’s defence of first past the post, and Polly Toynbee’s call for electoral reform ...

Perhaps the only thing on which Nigel Farage agrees with the Liberal Democrats and Green Party is the need for electoral reform in British politics. More and more politicians in the UK are pitching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As states from Texas to California debate and vote on new electoral maps, Americans are both learning about – and often disgusted ...

Ukraine and Russia’s dysfunctional democracies both share a common feature—their electoral systems use proportional representation (PR). Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal also use it. Proportional ...

As coalition formation grows ever more tortuous, the Netherlands must confront whether proportional representation itself is the problem.

The plan by the Longest Ballot Committee (LBC) to target the Montreal area riding of Terrebonne in an upcoming byelection is another childish attempt to register the group’s support for proportional ...

Thanks to the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on the legislative filibuster, any notion of Congress making a sustained push for democratic reforms is functionally dead. Voting rights ...

Democracy, in the immortal words of President Abraham Lincoln, is a government of the people, by the people, for the people. This pithy description makes democracy a sacrosanct concept that endures ...

I am pleased the government has recognised the need for electoral reform by removing first-past-the-post in mayoral elections. We should expect ...