{"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/32901.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":32901,"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"A Referendum On Using Open-List Party Proportional Representation In The UK","background":null,"additional_details":"Vote for a referendum on switching to a open-list party proportional representation voting system instead of the current first-past-the-post voting system.\r\n\r\n       Details on party proportional representation\r\n- The House of Commons will have exactly 500 MP's.\r\n- No Constituencies\r\n- Political parties need either 10% of all UK votes to qualify for seats in the House of Commons OR 10% of all votes in any of the 12 regions: East Midlands; East of England; Greater London; North East England; North West England; South East England; South West England; West Midlands; Yorkshire and the Humber; Scotland; Northern Ireland; Wales.\r\n- In a general election, people vote for a party and for the party leader to become prime minister. They can also vote for a person in that party to be elected as an MP. If the party does not get enough votes to qualify for seats, that parties votes are discarded. The Sainte-Laguë Method will be used to allocate the seats between the parties that have qualified.","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":5,"created_at":"2012-04-13T23:16:12.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:28:06.809Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2012-04-16T15:34:59.000Z","closed_at":"2013-04-16T15:34:59.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2012-04-13T23:16:12.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[],"signatures_by_country":[],"signatures_by_constituency":[],"signatures_by_region":[],"other_parliamentary_business":[]}}}