{"id":2051,"date":"2015-06-08T13:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:07","slug":"is-the-electoral-system-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/06\/08\/is-the-electoral-system-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the electoral system broken?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-reform.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/2015%20General%20Election%20Report%20web.pdf\">Electoral Reform Society<\/a>\u00a0the UK electoral system\u00a0is in crisis as the first-past-the-post system does not reflect votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>For full results see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoralcommission.org.uk\/our-work\/our-research\/electoral-data\">Electoral Commission website<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/researchbriefings.parliament.uk\/ResearchBriefing\/Summary\/CBP-7186\">House of Commons Library <\/a>Briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Electoral Reform Society\u00a0the UK electoral system\u00a0is in crisis as the first-past-the-post system does not reflect votes cast. For full results see the Electoral Commission website and the House of Commons Library Briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[41,115,242,93],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}