On Thursday 12th December, the public will (hopefully) flood to the polling stations in order to exercise their democratic right to vote. However, only around half of those votes will equate directly to the seats filled in parliament. What happens to the other half of the votes? Well, they might […]
Author: Alice Wilson
General Election: Call for electoral reform as votes “will count for nothing”
At the first ever Make Votes Matter meeting in Newcastle, voters vented their anger at the First Past The Post system, in which whoever wins the most votes in each constituency wins. This means that many votes around the country are considered “wasted”. “I’m very angry about the election coming […]