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A referendum was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 4 May 1995 on whether to change the voting system from First Past the Post (FPTP) to Single Transferable Vote (STV). The process of electoral reform had been started by the Alliance government after the United Kingdom general election, 1993. During the 1980s, the rise of the Alliance had caused the existing to system to produce anomalous results. In the 1984 general election, Labour had won nearly five times as many seats as the Alliance despite receiving 1.3 million less votes.

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  • United Kingdom voting system referendum, 1995 (No Falklands)
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  • A referendum was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 4 May 1995 on whether to change the voting system from First Past the Post (FPTP) to Single Transferable Vote (STV). The process of electoral reform had been started by the Alliance government after the United Kingdom general election, 1993. During the 1980s, the rise of the Alliance had caused the existing to system to produce anomalous results. In the 1984 general election, Labour had won nearly five times as many seats as the Alliance despite receiving 1.3 million less votes.
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  • A referendum was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 4 May 1995 on whether to change the voting system from First Past the Post (FPTP) to Single Transferable Vote (STV). The process of electoral reform had been started by the Alliance government after the United Kingdom general election, 1993. During the 1980s, the rise of the Alliance had caused the existing to system to produce anomalous results. In the 1984 general election, Labour had won nearly five times as many seats as the Alliance despite receiving 1.3 million less votes. In the two referenda of 1994, 60.9% of voters voted in favour of changing the system, while STV was nominated as a replacement voting system. Keeping in line with their plan from the 1993 general election, the government then scheduled a second referendum to take place alongside the 1995 local elections. Even though electoral reform had been overwhelmingly endorsed the previous year, the government of Jeremy Ashdown knew that they would face a harder battle to persuade voters to adopt the second referendum.
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