ELECTORAL REFORM

Evening Star, Issue 20671, 19 December 1930, Page 9

ELECTORAL REFORM

BRITISH LABOUR PARTY'S ATTITUDE (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, December 18. (Received December 19, at 1 p.m.) The National Executive of the Labour Party has approved of the inclusion of the alternative vote in the forthcoming Electoral Reform Bill in addition to the points laid out in the Labour programme of electoral reform approved by the recent annual party conference. These include a reduction of election expenses, the publication of accounts by political parties, prohibition of the use of motor cars at tho elections except for the sick and infirm, the abolition ox plural voting and a universal qualification, the division of double-membered constituencies into two single member constituencies, and a reduction in tho costs of election petitions. By 133 votes to 20 a joint meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, the National Executive, and the Labour peers approved of the text of the Electoral Reform Bill, including the alternative vote.