The reason is that the Lib Dems, despite not getting enough seats as they'd like based on votes, got enough to form a coalition, and having something on changing the voting system was part of their price for forming a coalition.
The Tories will likely try to push something like Instant Runoff Voting that helps larger parties.
The details are thin in the article, but isn't what they're describing IRV anyhow--or more generally, Single Transferable Vote, of which IRV is a special case where there is to be one winner?
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The reason is that the Lib Dems, despite not getting enough seats as they'd like based on votes, got enough to form a coalition, and having something on changing the voting system was part of their price for forming a coalition.
The Tories will likely try to push something like Instant Runoff Voting that helps larger parties.
The details are thin in the article, but isn't what they're describing IRV anyhow--or more generally, Single Transferable Vote, of which IRV is a special case where there is to be one winner?
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