electoral reform
Changing election rules
Electoral reform refers to changes in the rules governing elections—how votes are cast, counted, and converted into representation.
Proposals typically address voting methods (ranked-choice, proportional representation), district boundaries (gerrymandering), ballot access, campaign finance, or voter eligibility.
The term usually implies making elections fairer or more representative: Advocates for electoral reform want to abolish the Electoral College.
- apportionmentDivision into shares
- swing statesElectorally unpredictable regions
- redistrictingRedrawing electoral boundaries
- democracyRule by the people
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
electoral college · proportional representation · ranked-choice voting · runoff elections · open primaries · first-past-the-post · universal suffrage · mail-in ballots · secret ballot · dark money · political action committees · audit trails · majority rule · primaries · voting · accountability · fairness · mandate
- democracyvote, voting, elections, ballot, ballots
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- reformreformer, reformist, democratic reforms, structural change, overhaul
- British PoliticsHouse of Commons, Westminster, Whigs, Tories, Commons
- UK PoliticsHouse of Commons, House of Lords, MP, Tory, Downing Street
- Voting Rightsvoter registration, voter suppression, voter turnout, voting access, enfranchisement
electoral reformvoter suppression
Tactics discouraging ballot access
disenfranchisement · vote suppression · electoral manipulation · vote rigging · electoral fraud
electoral reformelectoral corruption
Illicit manipulation of elections
election rigging · vote manipulation · electoral fraud · ballot stuffing · voter intimidation