Ash Ford-McAllister

After every General Election - literally, immediately  after, as newly-elected MPs for various regions are announced by returning officers - there are calls for a "reform of First Past the Post ".  The Party of government wants to scrap First Past the Post because they believe it will make it easier for them to win subsequent elections, with larger majorities. Parties experiencing returning an MP to Parliament for the first time want to scrap First Past the Post because they believe it will result in them returning more  MPs at future elections.  And the losing Party wants to scrap First Past the Post because...well, they don't want to lose again, and demanding a change to the way votes are counted is a lot easier than actually doing the work to become re-electable. A lot of ordinary people in the electorate want to scrap First Past the Post, too, because it just seems fundamentally unfair that larger regions are always more likely to get their preferred candidate elected