ELECTORAL REFORM
NECESSITY IN BRITAIN CHURCHILL PREFERS P.R. : LONDON, 3rd June". In the House of Commons, Mr. Win* ston Churchill, supporting the Conservative motion to reject the third reading of tho Electoral Reform Bill, appealed to the Conservative leaders to give attention to some plaa of electoral reform. At the last election, ho said, 20,000 votes secured the return of a Labourite, but it required 23,000 to elect a' Conservative, and 100,000 to-elect a Liberal. He expressed the opinion that proportional representation was incomparably the fairest and most scientific way of obtaining the public will. The second ballot was far superior to the alter-native-vote method which determined elections by most worthless votes of the most worthless candidate, giving a new value to the phrase "The devil take tho hindmost," and opening the way for wire-pullers to secure the right kind of hindmost candidate.
The Bill was read a., third time bjj 278 votes to 228.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 130, 4 June 1931, Page 11
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