Abstract
In May 2005, as a response to the general elections in the UK, the Independent ran the headline ?What we voted for, what we got ... and why it's time for change.' The article meant to underline and highlight the discrepancy between the 55.2% seats in the Parliament which was secured by the Labor party and its narrow 35.3% share of the vote across the whole of the UK. It then attained a state of what one would coin as a ?reformation'. This symbolic example emphasizes a more widespread movement of protestation against the British First-Past-The-Post electoral system. Since time immemorial, the UK electoral system has been criticized on the grounds of it being unrepresentative, unfair, and even undemocratic. It is observed that the British general voting system seems to be living upto these accusations and remarks. In 1998, the Jenkins Commission was adopted and implemented by Tony Blair. If the electoral system is very closely examined and a comparative study is being done on the principles of the Jenkins Commission, it is heartening to note that the Jenkins proposal which was suggested by Blair seems to have been buried in a simultaneous manner of sweeping away Blair's campaign promise of a referendum on the electoral system. Therefore, as a first preliminary comment, one has to recognize that whatever pressure it has been witnessing or is currently subjected to, the general election voting system proves to have been extremely resilient until recently. As a prerequisite to highlighting the potential advantages of the voting system, an onlooker would definitely wonder and be in awe of the electoral voting system which was under a scene of extreme stress was significantly successful in penetrating into the UK society.
