About this site

About this site

dprvoting.org is an independent site intended to inform visitors about Direct Party and Representative Voting, and promote it as an alternative to the ‘First Past the Post' system for Westminster Parliamentary elections.

The site is not linked to any political party or politician.
There is no sponsorship or commercial activity related to the site.
The site was first launched in February 2010

The FPTP voting method for General Elections in the UK has serious flaws.

FPTP can produce an electoral result where the party that ‘wins’ is not the party to win the largest number of votes in the election. That alone should disqualify its claims to be a fair or democratic system. In addition third or fourth parties are marginalised, so that substantial minorities are ignored. By contrast, a small faction of the government party can have disproportionate influence.

But this is not the only problem. Safe seats mean MPs can be appointed to parliament by their parties. The beanbag gets elected as long as it sports the right coloured rosette. Added to this, ‘winning’ the election depends on campaigns in just a few marginal constituencies. FPTP infects our politics with a counterproductive adversarial approach and the lowest common denominator of argument, and this spills over into policy. No wonder politicians are held in such low esteem and turnout rates at elections are so low.

We need a better voting system.

A better system would allow you a free choice to vote for the best party to form the Government, and also for the best candidate to be the MP.
A better system would make sure that all votes counted equally when it came to determining which party formed the Government.
A better system would still have all single member constituencies and the same simple voting and counting that characterises FPTP.

Direct Party and Representative Voting is the better system we need in place of FPTP. It would be a fairer system, giving voters a better choice, and it would be an important step along the road to rebuilding our politics.

As a replacement for FPTP, DPR Voting offers more advantages and fewer disadvantages than any other system.

If you are concerned about politics, look at this system carefully.

Stephen Johnson had the original idea for DPR Voting, and set up the website.
All comments or questions are welcome.