* The Citizens ' Assembly on Electoral Reform says the new proportional electoral system it proposes for British Columbia will improve the practice of democracy in the province.

By this time the " New " Labour Party was seen as a reformed and fresh alternative under the leadership of Tony Blair, and after eighteen years in office the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election in one of the worst electoral defeats since the Great Reform Act of 1832.

In the event the Conservative party suffered the worst electoral defeat by a ruling party since the Great Reform Act of 1832.

His reign saw several reforms: the poor law was updated, child labour restricted, slavery abolished in nearly all the British Empire, and, most important, the Reform Act 1832 refashioned the British electoral system.

There are a number of groups in the UK campaigning for electoral reform, including the Electoral Reform Society, Make Votes Count Coalition and Fairshare.

During parliamentary elections in 1999, the seats in Riigikogu were divided as follows: the Centre Party received 28, the Pro Patria Union 18, the Reform Party 18, the People's Party Moderates ( election cartel between Moderates and People's Party ) 17, Coalition Party 7, Country People's Party ( now People's Union ) 7, United People's Party's electoral cartel 6 seats.

Clark was the founder of the Southern Tasmania Political Reform Association, whose agenda included manhood suffrage, fixed term parliaments, and electoral reform.

Before he became leader of the Conservative Party, Disraeli had announced that, as a result of the Reform Act of 1867 which had enfranchised the male working class, the party needed to pursue social reforms if it was to have electoral success.

Tariff Reform proved popular with Unionist supporters, but the threat of higher prices for food imports made the policy an electoral albatross.

After the Unionists had failed to win an electoral mandate at either of the General Elections of 1910 ( despite softening the Tariff Reform policy with Balfour's promise of a referendum on food taxes ), the Unionist peers split to allow the Parliament Act to pass the House of Lords, in order to prevent a mass-creation of new Liberal peers by the new King, George V. The exhausted Balfour resigned as party leader after the crisis, and was succeeded in late 1911 by Andrew Bonar Law.

In 2004, the British Columbia Citizens ’ Assembly on Electoral Reform convened a policy jury to consider alternatives to the first-past-the-post electoral systems.

In 2007, the Ontario Citizens ’ Assembly on Electoral Reform convened to consider alternative electoral systems in that province.

In the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Ontario, a group of citizens was randomly selected to create a Citizens ' Assembly on Electoral Reform to investigate and recommend changes to the provinces ' electoral systems.

When the Liberal Reform Bill was being debated in 1866, Cranborne studied the census returns to see how each clause in the Bill would affect the electoral prospects in each seat.

In Canada's plurality electoral system, this allowed the Liberals to win many Ontario ridings to be elected when the total combined Reform Party and Progressive Conservative Party vote in such ridings was more than the Liberal Party.

In 1989, Reform made headlines in the political scene when its first MP, Deborah Grey, was elected in a by-election in Alberta, which was a shock to the PCs which had almost complete electoral dominance over the province for years.

The problem of the split on the right was accentuated by Canada's single member plurality electoral system, which resulted in numerous seats being won by the Liberal Party, even when the total number of votes cast for PC and Reform Party candidates was substantially in excess of the total number of votes cast for the Liberal candidate.

The Electoral Reform Coalition was formed to lobby the government for a referendum on the electoral system.

In the United Kingdom, Reform Act is a generic term used for legislation concerning electoral matters.

Some people in Britain, mostly associated with the Liberal Democrats, have called for a new " Great Reform Act " to introduce electoral changes they favour.

* Reform Act 1928, which widened suffrage by giving women electoral equality with men

While the Labour Party gained some electoral success, it continued to trail the Liberal Party and the Reform Party until the replacement of Holland with Michael Joseph Savage.

After the electoral reform initiated by the anti-LDP coalition had been passed by the new LDP-JSP coalition in November 1994, the opposition parties negotiated on creating a unified force to contest the newly introduced FPTP single-member electoral districts that now elect the majority of the House of Representatives: In December, the Japan Renewal Party, a part of Kōmeitō which had split a few days before, the Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP ), the Japan New Party and the Jiyū Kaikaku Rengō (" Liberal Reform League " a federation of several small groups of Diet members who had broken away from the LDP ) formed the New Frontier Party.

* Bill Clinton / Al Gore ( D ) – 44, 909, 806 ( 43. 0 %) and 370 electoral votes ( 32 states and D. C. carried )

* Bill Clinton / Al Gore ( D ) ( Inc .) – 47, 400, 125 ( 49. 2 %) and 379 electoral votes ( 31 states and D. C. carried )

The Finance Bill passed the Commons on 5 November 1909 but was rejected by the Lords on 30 November ; they instead passed a resolution by Lord Lansdowne stating that they were entitled to oppose the bill as it lacked an electoral mandate.

This Bill was designed to modernise the electoral system by instituting permanent registration of voters, identification cards, voting machines and revised electoral boundaries.

Bill Tilley of the Liberal Party was elected member for the electoral district of Benambra in the 2006 Victorian State Election in November 2006.

Exceptions came in the elections of 1976, when every former Confederate state but Virginia voted for Georgia native Jimmy Carter, and 1992 and 1996, when the Democratic ticket of southerners Bill Clinton ( Arkansas ) and Al Gore ( Tennessee ) achieved a split of the region's electoral votes.

The Finance Bill passed the Commons on 5 November 1909 but was rejected by the Lords on 30 November 1909 ; they instead passed a resolution by Lord Lansdowne stating that they were entitled to oppose the bill as it lacked an electoral mandate.

Chamberlain earned a reputation for provocative speeches during the period, especially during debate on the 1884 County Franchise Bill, which was opposed by the Whig Liberals Lord Hartington and George Goschen, as well as the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury, who argued that the Bill gave the Liberals an unfair electoral advantage and was prepared to block the Bill in the House of Lords unless it was accompanied by redistribution of seats into the suburbs.

The first task of the new government was to introduce ( on 4 March ) an Additional Representation Bill, to rectify-in part-the disparity in electoral power of the rural and urban districts.

As a result of boundary revisions for the 2010 general election the Crosby constituency was abolished and Crosby town was divided between two constituencies, with the two electoral wards of southern Crosby, Church and Victoria, containing the urbanised bulk of the town which includes the areas of Great Crosby, Waterloo and Seaforth, being absorbed into the expanded Bootle constituency, represented by the Labour MP Joe Benton, and the two electoral wards of northern Crosby, Blundellsands and Manor, which contains residential suburban areas such as, Blundellsands, Brighton-Le-Sands, Little Crosby, Thornton, and Hightown, forming part of the new Sefton Central constituency represented by Bill Esterson, also a Labour MP.

At the New Zealand general election on 17 September 2005, National under Brash's leadership made major gains, and achieved what was at the time the party's best result since the institution of the mixed member proportional electoral system in 1993, compared to their worst result ever in 2002 under the leadership of his predecessor, Bill English.

He was easily re-elected in 1992 even as Bill Clinton lost Alabama's electoral votes.

** Third Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1958, a failed amendment of the Irish constitution concerning the electoral system

He made a strong speech in support of the Bill, and was blamed for the Conservatives ' unexpected electoral defeat the following year, which the right of the party attributed to newly-enfranchised young women ( referred to derogatorily as " flappers ") voting for the opposition Labour party.

In 1962, the Republican Party, which had lost the two previous gubernatorial elections and seen the state's electoral votes go Democratic in the 1960 presidential election, became convinced that a moderate such as Bill Scranton would have enough bipartisan appeal to revitalize the party.

* Third Amendment Bill ( 1958 ): This was a proposal to alter the electoral system for elections to Dáil Éireann from proportional representation under the Single Transferable Vote to the British First Past the Post system.

* Fourth Amendment Bill ( 1968 ): This was a second attempt to alter the electoral system by abolishing proportional representation in favour of First Past the Post.

As of June 28, 2004, there are 308 federal electoral districts in Canada, and in accordance with the Fair Representation Act ( formerly known as Bill C-20 ), which received Royal Assent and came into force on December 16, 2011, the number of seats contested in the 2015 election election will rise to 338.