The Living Vote – an Overview

Structure

• Parliament will be made up of 75% political party members and 25% independent members.
• When you vote you will have two ballot papers. One for political parties and one for independents.

Constituencies

• There will be approximately 256 party constituencies covering the whole country.
• There will be approximately 64 independents constituencies covering the whole country.
• Each independent constituency will cover approximately 4 party constituencies.
• Each constituency, both party constituencies and independent constituencies, will return two MPs.

Voting

• You select one candidate on the party ballot paper and one candidate on the independents ballot paper.
• The first placed and second placed candidates in each constituency are elected, based on a simple count, as now.

The Living Vote

• When your MP votes, they will cast the number of votes they received in the election.
• Every time they vote, your vote is used. It lives for the entire parliament, hence The Living Vote.