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Rayner to scrap first-past-the-post for mayoral and PCC elections in England, reverting to supplementary vote
Labour is going to bring back the supplementary vote (SV) for mayoral and police and crime commissioner (PCC) elections in England.
The provision is included in the English devolution and community empowerment bill, which has been published today. It is clause 59 of the bill.
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These elections always used to be held under the supplementary vote system, which gives voters the chance to select a first preference and a second preference and means that, if no candidate gets more than 50% when first preference votes are counted, the top two candidates go into a run-off, with the second preference votes for candidates who are eliminated being taken into account.
But in 2022 the last government changed the voting system for mayoral and PCC elections to first past the post (FPTP) – the system used in UK parliamentary elections.
The Tories argued that FPTP is easier to understand. But the move was widely seen as an attempt to boost the chances of Conservative candidates, and a Constitution Unit analysis of how the system operated in 2024 confirmed this. It said that, although none of the mayoral election results that year were affected by the switch to FPTP, at least four, and potentially up to 12, PCC election results were affected. It went on:
Because the left in British politics is currently more fragmented than the right, the switch from SV to FPTP favoured the Conservatives over Labour and other left or centre-left parties. By changing the voting system, the Conservatives significantly reduced their losses.
Many Labour figures believe that a switch from FTPT to SV will help their party beat Reform UK in mayoral contests.
Curiously, Angela Rayner, the deputy PM and housing secretary, has not mentioned this aspect of the bill in her press release about it.
Why government says it is getting rid of FPTP for mayoral and PCC elections in England
Here is an extract from a briefing note being circulated within government explaining why FTPT is being abandoned for mayoral and PCC elections. (See 4.16pm.)
Mayors serve many millions of people and manage multi-million pound budgets yet can be elected by just a fraction of the vote, under recent changes by the previous government. This is despite the supplementary vote system working effectively for over a decade previously, providing a strong, personal mandate for regional mayors.
While FPTP is a simple voting system, on a vast geographic scale it can lead to individuals being elected with only a small proportion of the total votes cast. Given the large population that regional mayors and PCCs represent - far exceeding that of parliamentarians - the government believes that they should be elected with a greater consensus among their electors. The bill will therefore change the voting system for these types of elections to the supplementary vote system.
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