Tagged as elections

Elections

25 Oct 2019

They Work For You – To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to encourage more people to vote in elections.

Elections

18 Oct 2019

They Work For You – To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office

Another election under Westminster’s broken voting system is unlikely to get us out of this crisis

3 Sep 2019

Electoral Reform Society – Back in May, our Westminster Beyond Brexit report raised a prescient question: “Do we want a democracy that gives the power of an absolute monarch to one party, or a government which is representative and can work responsively and responsibly to deal with the issues facing the country?”

Elections

9 Jul 2019

They Work For You – To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has plans to implement the Law Commission’s recommendation to consolidate the UK’s electoral laws into a single, consistent legislative framework governing all elections.

European Parliament: Elections

3 Jul 2019

They Work For You – To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with the Electoral Commission on the potential disenfranchisement of EU citizens resident in the UK in the European Parliament elections.

Local Government: Elections

28 Jun 2019

They Work For You – To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with which EU member states the UK has concluded a reciprocal agreement on the right of each other’s citizens

Mayors: Elections

25 Jun 2019

They Work For You – To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 27 May (HL15627), what was the cost of running each of the most recent eight mayoral elections.

Elections: Peterborough

25 Jun 2019

They Work For You – To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the number of (1) electors, (2) postal votes cast

Who runs elections and how can they be improved? Independence, resources and workforce conditions are essential for good election management

7 Jun 2019

Democratic Audit – In new research published today about how elections are run around the world, Toby S. James, Leontine Loeber, Holly Ann Garnett and Carolien van Ham find that organisational independence matters for well-run elections, and that election management could be improved with more resources, improved working conditions for election employees – and a […]

Australia election: Fines, donkey votes and democracy sausages

13 May 2019

BBC News: More than 90% of eligible Australians are expected to vote in the election on 18 May – because it’s one of the few countries to have compulsory voting.