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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/voting-system-poll-finally-cleared.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Plans for a referendum on changing the voting system for general elections has gained royal assent" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-voting-system-poll-finally-cleared.jpg" alt="Plans for a referendum on changing the voting system for general elections has gained royal assent"/></a></p>
<p>Plans for a referendum on changing the voting system for general elections has gained royal assent after a torrid passage through Parliament.</p>
<p>The House of Lords sat through the night last month as the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill&#8217;s progress turned into a war of attrition between coalition and Labour peers.</p>
<p>But as the final deadline for the Bill to clear Parliament in time for a May 5 referendum approached the Government managed to overcome the stubborn resistance in the upper chamber.</p>
<p>Ministers needed to get the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill on to the statute book before peers began their February half-term recess at the end of Thursday&#8217;s business in order to give the Electoral Commission time to plan for a referendum on the coalition&#8217;s preferred date.</p>
<p>The legislation paves the way for a plebiscite on dropping the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system for Westminster elections in favour of the alternative vote (AV), which allows electors to rank candidates in order of preference.</p>
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