UK Alternative Vote referendum, 2011

United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum
At present, the UK uses the "first past the post" system to elect MPs to the House of Commons. Should the "alternative vote" system be used instead?
Location	United Kingdom
Date	5 May 2011 (2011-05-05)
Results Votes % Yes 6,152,607 7001321000000000000♠32.10% No 13,013,123 7001679000000000000♠67.90% Valid votes 19,165,730 7001994100000000000♠99.41% Invalid or blank votes 113,292 6999590000000000000♠0.59% Total votes 19,279,022 100.00% Registered voters/turnout 45,684,501 7001422000000000000♠42.2%
Results by local voting areas   Yes     No

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The United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum, also known as the UK-wide referendum on the Parliamentary voting system was held on Thursday 5 May 2011 (the same date as local elections in many areas) in the United Kingdom (UK) to choose the method of electing MPs at subsequent general elections as part of the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement drawn up after the 2010 general election which had resulted in the first hung parliament since February 1974 and also indirectly in the aftermath of the 2009 expenses scandal under the provisions of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 and was the first national referendum to be held under provisions laid out in the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.

The referendum concerned whether or not to replace the present "first-past-the-post" system with the "alternative vote" (AV) method and was the first national referendum to be held across the whole of the United Kingdom in the twenty first century. The proposal to introduce AV was overwhelmingly rejected by 67.9% of voters on a national turnout of 42%.

This was only the second UK-wide referendum to be held (after the EC referendum back in 1975) and is to date the only UK-wide referendum to be held on an issue not related to the European Economic Community (Common Market) or European Union and was also the first UK-wide referendum to be overseen by the Electoral Commission. It was also the first that was not merely consultative: it committed the government to give effect to its decision.

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