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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