After the mayoral elections this May, it was reported that the government would press ahead with plans to switch all elections for combined authority mayors (metro mayors), the mayor of London, and police and crime commissioners (PCCs) from the supplementary vote towards the old first-past-the-post system—reverse electoral reform.
Such a move will affect a lot of voters. Some 41 per cent of people in England now live in London or an area with a metro mayor. Everyone in England and Wales is represented by a PCC, or a mayor with the same powers (as in London, Manchester and West Yorkshire). People may not know it, but PCCs have the power to appoint and dismiss chief constables and set police budgets and priorities. They are increasingly voted for on partisan lines, and so the partisan effects of electoral system change matter.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/reverse-electoral-reform-why-government-wants-to-scrap-supplementary-vote-elections-conservatives-government-mayors
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