Owen Winter

Owen Winter is the Co-Founder & Director of Make Votes Matter, the movement for Proportional Representation in the House of Commons.

Peterloo led eventually to electoral democracy – but there’s one big bit of unfinished business

New evidence shows that it’s the Right that tend to benefit from the UK's unequal electoral system. The Left is gradually embracing Proportional Representation, but it needs to move faster.

By Owen Winter

/ 16 Aug 2019

Peterloo led eventually to electoral democracy – but there’s one big bit of unfinished business

Why our media is wrong to say proportional representation helps the extreme right

The UK media likes to blame far right gains elsewhere – as in Sweden’s recent election – on PR. In fact the evidence shows disproportional voting systems give more power to the extreme right.

By Owen Winter

/ 12 Oct 2018