Writing in 1911, with an introduction by Lord Courtney of Penwith, Humphreys asks how far the House of Commons expresses the national will and shows, with election figures from Britain and abroad, how majority systems distort it. He then examines the second ballot, list systems used in Belgium and elsewhere, and the single transferable vote.
A clear early argument for electoral reform that still speaks to debates about voting systems today. Download the free EPUB.