ELECTORAL REFORM.
COMMONS PASS BILL. VIEIWS OF MR. CHURCHILL. (Received Juno .1. 10.5 p.m.) LONDON, Juno n. Speaking in tho House of Commons on tho Conservative motion (o reject the third reading of tho Electoral Reform Bill, Mr. Winston Churchill, who supported the motion, appealed to the Conservative lenders to give attention to somo plan of electoral reform. At the last election 20,000 votes secured the return of a Labour candidate, but it required 23.000 votes to elect a Conservative end 100.000 to elect a Liberal. Mr. Churchill expressed the opinion that proportional representation was incomparably the fairest and most scientific way of obtaining Iho public will. The second ballot was far superior lo the alternative vote method, which determined elections by the most worthless votes of the most, worthless candidate and gave a new value to the phrase " tho devil take tho hindmost," and opened the way to wire-pullers to secure tho right kind of- hindmost candidate.
The bill was read a third time by 278 vote's fo 228.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20890, 4 June 1931, Page 9
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