Scrapping supplementary vote won't improve voting system

By Arianna Giovannini | 21 April 2022

In a few weeks’ time, the people of South Yorkshire will vote for the election of their second metro mayor.

However, if the Elections Bills currently in the Lords passes without amendments, this might be one of the last times we use the Supplementary Vote (SV) system to select mayors.

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