The U.K. plans to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 before the next national election, with opposition claiming Labour is trying to sway the electorate.

The UK uses a first-past-the-post voting system instead of proportional representation which is used in other countries.

How the ‘first past the post’ voting system works Voters in the United Kingdom are going to the polls today, with Labour expected to return to government after 14 years of Conservative rule.

Learn about the First Past the Post voting system, how MPs are chosen for the House of Commons and the advantages and disadvantages of this system with this Bitesize article for National 5 Modern ...

Proportional Representation (PR) is the principle behind a number of electoral systems, all of which attempt to ensure that the outcome of the election reflects the proportion of support gained by ...

Teachers will be asked to leave their politics at the classroom door in order to make sure pupils are not swayed on how to ...

How does the voting system work? The UK is divided into 650 constituencies, and each constituency elects one MP to represent them in parliament.

Both countries are wrestling with the imperfections of their electoral systems — how to make democracy not just the least bad system, but one that most people think works well.

British voters are moving away from the two-party system, but their electoral system hasn’t kept up.

Labour, UKIP and the Greens all gained much bigger swings than the Conservatives, but were election losers. The first-past-the-post system let the Tories pick up a swag of seats with a 0.8% swing.

Labour won a ‘landslide’ election victory in July with about a third of the vote, while Boris Johnson was able to drive through a hard Brexit deal to leave the European Union, despite his lack ...