BBC News - Brown to ask MPs to vote on electoral reform referendum

BBC News - Brown to ask MPs to vote on electoral reform referendum:

MPs are to be asked to vote next week on holding a referendum on electoral reform, the BBC has learnt.

Gordon Brown is backing a plan for a referendum on replacing the 'first past the post' system of electing MPs with an 'alternative vote' system.

Under an AV system, voters are asked to rank candidates by preference rather than putting a cross by a single name.

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