Anne Campbell (Cambridge):
“As a long-term supporter of electoral reform, and LCER, from my experience on a minority group on Cambridgeshire County Council, in the Commons, as a member of Labour's Policy Forum, I have detected both a new interest in Electoral Reform and the need to argue for this change in political culture with each generation of Labour members and supporters.”

Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West):
“Electoral reform remains on the agenda with the Richard Commission report, referendums on English devolution and Scotland’s move to PR for Scottish Local Government. I have been closely involved in recent constitutional developments, as a campaigner for PR during the devolution debate in Wales, as Special Adviser in the Welsh Assembly helping to negotiate the previous partnership government, and in the House of Commons as a member of the Public Administration Select Committee, whose report on Lords reform led to the establishment of a joint Committee of both Houses.”

Richard Burden (Birmingham Northfield):
“I support electoral reform. It is not simply about making voting fairer. It is about making politics more relevant and creating a healthy democracy.”

Valerie Davey (Bristol West):
“My experience of representing Bristol West, a genuine three-way marginal, has made me more not less convinced that we need electoral reform for the House of Commons. I expect the injustice of the voting will come back onto the agenda after the General Election and there will be need for Labour MPs, committed to electoral reform, in the House of Commons to ensure that this debate takes place.”

Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby):
“Proportional representation is the only way Labour can fulfil its mission of democratising Britain, modernising politics and reforming Parliament by ending the elective dictatorship. Reform isn’t as fashionable as it once was but we have a great opportunity to widen it into broader areas such as local government but must keep up both the pressure and the educational work. We’ll win. It’s far better to do this by introducing a sensible electoral system now from a position of strength, than be forced into a deathbed conversion as we will if we don’t do what the people want”.

Luke Akehurst (Castle Point) a seat won back by the Conservatives in 2001, but won by Labour in 1997:
“I have supported electoral reform since I first joined the Labour Party in the late '80s for the simple reason that as a democratic socialist I believe in equality, so I want an electoral system where every vote has an equal value and every voter the same power to choose the representatives in councils and parliament that they want. Changing the electoral system will entrench Labour's progressive changes like the minimum wage and devolution and ensure a Commons that continues to reflect the progressive majority in Britain."

Anne Sacks (Lancaster and Wyre) standing in place of Hilton Dawson:
"As a candidate in the marginal constituency of Lancaster and Wyre, I know of a small number of voters who feel 'under pressure' to vote a certain way to produce a progressive result in the first-past-the-post system. They feel they cannot support the party of their choice. A fairer system would offer these voters more choice and help candidates to engage in the issues rather than offer suggestions about voting patterns. A different system would produce a more representative parliament in which everybody's vote counted equally instead of being weighted towards a small minority in marginal constituencies."

LCER Treasurer Steve Roberts (New Forest East) one of the seats Labour has never represented:
“Many fight for electoral reform from the moral high ground. I come to the fight because so much of the social progress made by Labour and progressives in the last hundred years was destroyed in the hard right Thatcher era. Britain's progress was built on the shallow foundations of FPTP. Europe began so much slower but was built on the deep concrete foundations of proportionality. Now they are the ones with workers' rights, health service, state pension. Everyone must find that extra strength, time and money. More dominoes will fall until only a lonely outdated House of Commons is left.”

Lawrie Quinn (Scarborough & Whitby):
”My personal experiences as the Labour MP for Scarborough & Whitby since 1997 has only reinforced my long held belief that there is an intellectual and pragmatic case to be made for sustainable reform of our Nation’s Constitution….central to this is the case for a fair voting system.
… I worry about the future of a Nation which fails to send more than a handful of engineers to become law makers! Politicians in the UK have never been held in so low regard although, in our own constituencies, MPs do get the respect they deserve if they work fundamentally in tune with their communities. Too many MPs are now products of a political machine which starts with student activism via political research into public office….real people do not have the same personal experiences as the vast majority of Westminster types who have never worked in a real workplace or interacted with the wider community in the day-to-day grind of normal life in Britain. … Every day I see problems which I can’t begin to solve immediately as an MP because the method of delivery of policy relies on a strategic body or a local council….these always out of reach from the constituent with the problem…it's so frustrating…time consuming and unnecessary because the accountabilities are biased against dynamic response to problem solving.
... I came into public life because I want to part of the solution not the problem. Our unfair voting system skews public life away from ordinary communities…the Nation needs problem solving politicians not time serving machine politicians …and the public will respond to this reality with further disengagement in a process passed its sell by date. The Status Quo only worked effectively when real people worked through as real representatives from their communities ….this has not been the case since 1979 and each General Election is seeing voting slip backwards….its time to move Forward to Fair Voting not Back!”