Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Commission Committee – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 13 October 2011.
Gary Streeter
Conservative, South West Devon
10:30,
13 October 2011
The Electoral Commission has made a number of recommendations to the Government on the administration of UK-wide elections, most recently in its report on the 2010 parliamentary General Election. The commission has recommended that the Government set out a comprehensive plan to improve the management of elections and to make it easier for voters to participate.
In a general election, each constituency chooses an MP to represent it by process of election. The party who wins the most seats in parliament is in power, with its leader becoming Prime Minister and its Ministers/Shadow Ministers making up the new Cabinet. If no party has a majority, this is known as a hung Parliament. The next general election will take place on or before 3rd June 2010.
