If the Alternative Vote is adopted for parliamentary elections, it will leave local elections in an odd position. As usual, no one seems to be paying much attention to local government. We will be the only officials to be elected by first past the post if MPs change.
What makes it odder is that local government has multi member seats in London. This seemed to cause a lot of confusion in the election just past, so I am not particularly wedded to it. Indeed, the multi-member system runs against one of the more popular features of the first past the post system, that you know who your representative is because there is only one of them. Presumably if the Con Dem coalition wakes up to this anomaly, they will want a government minister to redraw all the authorities into one member seats without consultation.
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