Low turnout at elections allows anti-growth minorities to dictate policy. Diluting that by ensuring all eligible voices are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Should voting be compulsory Few were surprised when the 2024 general election delivered a Labour landslide. That the party would ...

Labour secured a massive Commons majority at last year’s general election with the support of just one in five eligible voters. The party won nearly two-thirds of MPs (63%) with just a third of the ...

Australia and Singapore, two of the 20-odd nations with compulsory voting, are set to go to the polls this weekend. On May 3, two of the 20-or-so countries with compulsory voting will hold general ...

Compulsory voting in referendums had the highest level of public support, with 60 per cent saying they agreed it should be mandatory to vote in a referendum. A slightly smaller proportion (54 per cent ...