Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation

BPC Action, along with members of the Fix Congress Cohort, sent a letter to the Subcommittee on Modernization and Innovation expressing their gratitude for the work the subcommittee has done throughou...

Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.

Our new report quantifies the practical costs of the forever redistricting wars on American voters.

After Callais v. Louisiana, winner-take-all districts make racial and partisan gerrymandering inevitable, and proportional representation through the Fair Representation Act would better protect votin...

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Much of what ails us can be blamed on the steady degradation of the legislature as the other branches of government grabbed power for themselves. It’s time to start undoing the damage.

Voters overwhelmingly want something different, but don’t know or understand the reform options on the table.

The current congressional map for Georgia gives nine of 14 House seats to Republicans and five to Democrats, but Georgia is divided politically 50-50. The system must change.

The Supreme Court has closed off nearly every legal avenue for challenging partisan gerrymandering. The answer isn’t better maps. It’s proportional representation.

The Supreme Court has closed off nearly every legal avenue for challenging partisan gerrymandering. The answer isn’t better maps. It’s proportional representation.

A new poll shows support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to a party's vote share.

A poll has found majority support for adding 150 House seats, though major electoral reforms remain unlikely in Congress.

A new poll shows support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to a party's vote share.

Voters overwhelmingly want something different, but don’t know or understand the reform options on the table

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Civil society is playing defense against authoritarianism—but defense alone won’t be enough. Two Protect Democracy advocates make the case for proportional representation as the structural reform that...

Today’s legislators should summon the courage to reform Congress to meet the needs of 21st-century Americans.

Today, we are facing a watershed moment. If a political window for democracy reform opens, we should not settle for half-measures. We may not have another opportunity for decades.

Adams did not say election rules might be twisted so that one party could rule above all or might be manipulated to squeeze out large demographic or political voting blocs.

Polling 10,000 Americans, the Pew Research Center found divisions on the political left and right, plus the Tuned-Out Middle.

Multimember districts might offer a solution to the gerrymandering of congressional districts.

Gerrymandering is breaking American democracy. Here's how other countries solved it.

The Callais decision put us in a redistricting doom loop. Embracing proportional representation may be the only way out.

Why does the U.S. have only two major parties? A look at how the election system, voting rules and political incentives keep Democrats and Republicans in power.

Learn how gerrymandering affects elections. Interactive game comparing single-member vs multi-member districts with real-time seat allocation results.

Loren DeJonge Schulman, Lee Drutman, Joseph Dunne, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), Maya MacGuineas, Daniel Cochrane, Nicol Turner Lee, Vivek Chilukuri

Among 107 democracies, we found that only one other country uses the same redistricting approach as the U.S.

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“Democracies that use proportional systems consistently show higher turnout, more accurate representation, more competitive elections, and less polarized partisan animosity,” writes a s…

Internal divisions are good, actually

Here's What It Might Look Like

More than 200 political scientists, legal scholars, and historians released an open letter calling on Congress to reject the United States’ winner-take-all elections.

Proportional representation is a smart way to ensure that conservatives in blue states are heard.

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Bacon’s success is thanks to strong relationships in his district and his brand as a centrist, opposing his party line just often enough to win over voters ...

South Africa’s history shows how an electoral system can change everything. Sometimes, democracy’s biggest dangers aren’t coups or revolutions, but the quiet impact of the rules th

In our new report, we argue that the winner-take-all system suppresses participation among young people and limits their opportunities to influence policy.