British referendum on reforming the electoral system to determine the date of
LONDON, July 5 (Xinhua Guo Rui) British Deputy Prime Minister, Craig 5, the House announced that the UK will be held on May 5 next year, a referendum to decide whether to reform the existing electoral system, the "relative majority" system, the words "to vote" system.
Clegg has also announced a series of political reforms, including the lower house of parliament members were reduced to 600 from 650, to reduce expenses; a fixed parliamentary term, the government canceled the election date to determine entitlement power; adjust boundaries to enable a more average size of each constituency.
Craig said that if the electoral system reform plan was adopted in the referendum, the next British general election will be May 7, 2015 held, voters will be in accordance with the "choice voting" system to elect the House members.
"relative majority" who is first past the post system of who is elected. And "to vote" system is: voting, voters choose according to their priority and order of candidates on ballot papers marked - votes, if a candidate won more than half of the valid votes, "the first choice votes," the candidate elected. If no one candidate more than half, will be the "first preference vote" at least candidates for deletion, and these votes on the ballot paper in accordance with the "second choice", were transferred to other candidates. This transfer process has to continue until a candidate received a majority of the votes.
reform the British electoral system is strongly advocated the policy of the Liberal Democratic Party, one of a referendum on the reform of the electoral system is as a leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Conservative leader Craig Cameron had agreed to a coalition important condition. However, Cameron's spokesman has said that Cameron against reform the electoral system.
