{"id":76564,"date":"2024-07-07T08:27:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T07:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=76564"},"modified":"2024-07-07T08:27:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T07:27:13","slug":"what-multi-member-constituencies-might-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/07\/07\/what-multi-member-constituencies-might-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What multi-member constituencies might look like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt this map, produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lder.org\/the-change-we-need\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liberal Democrats for Electoral Reform<\/a>, was interesting in showing what constituencies in a multi-member constituency system of proportional representation might look like:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-76566\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-07-at-08.23.37-550x798.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-07-at-08.23.37-550x798.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-07-at-08.23.37-207x300.png 207w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-07-at-08.23.37-768x1115.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-07-at-08.23.37-276x400.png 276w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-07-at-08.23.37.png 1014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, slightly larger constituencies would make sense: proportionality would increase in that case. However, this compromise retains a greater link with the locality.<\/p>\n<p>Would a system like this really be a problem for anyone? I can see no reason why when most people never have any contact with an MP, but PR might encourage more engagement.<\/p>\n<p>I am not endorsing this proposal. I thought it was worth sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt this map, produced by Liberal Democrats for Electoral Reform, was interesting in showing what constituencies in a multi-member constituency system of proportional representation<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/07\/07\/what-multi-member-constituencies-might-look-like\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76567,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76564\/revisions\/76567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}