{"id":8949,"date":"2026-02-02T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/?page_id=8949"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:43:07","slug":"scottish-parliament","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/campaigns\/scottish-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"A Parliament That Works for Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row flexible-block\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 wysiwyg\">\n<p>The Scottish Parliament is made up of constituency MPs elected under First Past the Post, and regional \u2018additional\u2019 members that are supposed to even out the distortions of the constituency results. Yet, the Holyrood system still tends to favour larger parties?<\/p>\n<p>The additional members are allocated regionally, there are too many first past the post seats, and the d\u2019Hondt method favours larger parties.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that more can be done to finesse the way we elect our MSPs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make Scotland\u2019s democracy even more representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4569,"parent":30,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/campaign.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8949","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","feature-category-ers-scotland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8949\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electoral-reform.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}