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.
