The people of Tower Hamlets have rejected making changes to the voting system used to choose MPs by delivering a resounding No vote in the recent referendum. 54% of local people voted No, rejecting the change proposed by Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband.
Local Conservatives campaigned hard across Tower Hamlets in favour of keeping the simple and fair first past the post system. Chairman of Poplar and Limehouse Conservatives, Paul Mawdsley said "I am very pleased that local people rejected AV. Clearly they saw it for what it was - a discredited, unfair and expensive system under which a third place candidate can win."