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Make Votes Count In West Sussex is part of the national Make Votes Count campaign.
We want to obtain a fairer voting system for public elections, based on the four principles the Government set in December 1997 as the criteria for the Independent Commission on the Voting System (the Jenkins Commission), which reported in October 1998.

Make Votes Count in West Sussex campaigns for these four principles:

	Broad Proportionality
	The present First-Past-The-Post voting system is not at all proportional, as our statistics for West Sussex constituencies in the 2005 general election show.
	Extended Voter Choice
	There is no real voter choice with the present First-Past-The-Post voting system, because each party puts up just one candidate and, in a safe seat, the party in effect chooses the MP.
	Stable Government
	The present First-Past-The-Post voting system gives the illusion of stability but, in fact, encourages major swings in Parliament with incoming Governments undoing not only the bad policies of their predecessors but also the good ones.
	Maintenance of Links between MPs and Geographical Constituencies
	The links between MPs and geographical constituencies under the present First-Past-The-Post voting system are often only temporary because of frequent constituency boundary changes.