Electoral Systems And The Conservative Party

EDM number 104 in 1990-91, proposed by Malcolm Bruce on 21/11/1990.

That this House notes the double standards of the Conservative Party in employing a complex voting system for their leadership elections designed to ensure that the eventual winner has the support of an overall majority of Conservative honourable Members, and contrasts this with the party's determination to maintain the undemocratic first-past-the-post system for parliamentary elections, thus denying the electorate the opportunity to ensure that the Prime Minister and Government have majority support in the country; and concludes that a party that uses the single transferable vote for its final ballot but denies its use for Parliamentary elections is politically corrupt and contemptuous of modern democracy

This motion has been signed by a total of 13 MPs.