Electoral Reform in Bermuda
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One of the inheritances of British colonialism in many parts of the world is an electoral system based on that used to elect members of the UK House of Commons, albeit with many slight variations on the basic model of single-member constituencies allocated to the candidates with a plurality of the votes cast. One such country with that inheritance was Bermuda, which intends to shift its system even closer to the UK norm. A unanimous vote in its House of Assembly on 11 October 2002 agreed to forward to the UK Foreign Secretary a Boundary Commission report recommending a 36-seat House elected by first-past-the-post, what the Premier termed the achievement of ‘a long cherished dream of many Bermudians ... of establishing a modernised and reformed electoral system predicated on the democratic ideal of “one person, one vote, each of equal value”’.
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