Democracy, elections and voting

Democracy

People having the power to decide who rules the country

Classical/ direct democracy

Direct voting on issues bu citezena and regular meetings and discussions.

Representative democracy

A type of democracy in which elecred officials represent a group of people

Pluralism

A system of decision-making in which all groups aee included

Regular, fair and free elections

Elections should give citizens rhetorical opportunity to regularly and genuinely express their preferences

Voting age

16 and over

Political parties

Groups of people who share beliefs on how the country should be run.

Secret ballot

Your vote is secret

First-past-the-post system

Where the candidate with the most votes in an area wins a seat in parliament. The other candidates in that area get nothing

Proportional representation system

Where parties get seats based on the proportion of votes

Labour manifesto

Economic stability by reducing taxes, inflation, and mortgages. Cut NHS waiting times by reducing taxes avoidance.

Conservative manifesto

Cut taxes for work, and pensioners, to safeguard borders of migrants and to stop the boats

Liberal Democrats manifesto

Regulate businesses, increace tax to improve public services, rejoin the EU

Green manifesto

Nationalisation of sectors, to find non-violent solutions to conflict, to scrap WMDs, to encourage freedom and sustainable development, carbon tax, wealth tax increase

Reform UK manifesto

Keep Britain out of the EU, reduce taxes, increase police numbers and reduce the power and role of the state

SNP manifesto

Scottish independence, improving public health services and the NHS, rejoining the EU, tackle cost of living

Plaid Cymru manifesto

Reducing inequality in economic performance for the nation, environmental bill to address climate change, fairness for NHS workforce wage, improving wales

Additional member system

Uses FPTP to elect candidates, 20 new assembly members are elected.

Voters vote once for a local candidate and then for a party

political party are split proportionally amongst the parties, the party can pick additional members from their party. Numbers of additional members depend on the voters

Welsh assembly

Closed party list system

Parties draw up 10 members. Electora then vite for the party that they want to represent them.

The party with the largest proportion of the vote get to select some of their 10 people to represent them. Parties woth less votes choose less of their 10 people. This makes people chosen proportional to botes

EU parliament

Single Transferrable Vote system

Rank a list of candidates in order. Candidates who get at least 14% of votes are elected

The second preferences of those that voted for the successful candidates are redistributed and if all the vacancies are filled, the process is done

If not the least popular candidates are eliminated and their second preferences are re-distributed. The process just continues until all places are filled

Northern Irish assembly