The results of the recent elections in Great Britain have raised many significant questions about the current political situation in the country, particularly regarding the electoral system. Therefore, in recent years, the problem of the “crisis” of British democracy has been the subject of extensive speculation among analysts and political scientists. Furthermore, it is widely recognized that the UK's traditional first-past-the-post electoral system is the root cause of this crisis and should be replaced as part of a plan to rebuild the democratic culture (Kelly 2008). Long critical of the system, opponents support the use of proportional representation (PR) to select parliamentarians. Due to this problem, a referendum will be held on changing the electoral system of the country's parliamentary elections. In recent years in the UK the arguments in favor of adopting proportional representation have been made much more widely than those in favor of maintaining the current system of majority voting. In this essay I would like to help redress the balance by highlighting some misunderstandings in the criticism of plurality voting and pointing out some overlooked advantages of the current electoral system in Britain. The main advantage of PR is its association with greater equity rather than the majoritarian system. This is related to the following factors: firstly, each political party has a chance of gaining seats in proportion to the number of polls, secondly voters have a wide range of parties to vote for. With multiple parties voters have enormous diversity and are more likely to find a party that represents their political beliefs than in a two-party system. John Stuart Mill (1861), the best-known advocate of PR, emp...... middle of paper ......native.Works CitedCenter for Voting and Democracy. 1996. Doubtful Democracy. 2nd ed. Chandler, J. A. 1982. Plurality Voting: A Reevaluation. Political studies. Sheffield: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Colman, A. M. 1992. Arguments against proportional representation. Politics Review, 2(2), 14-15.Curtis, J., Fisher S., Lessard-Philips L. 2007.Proportional representation and the missing voter. British Social Attitudes: Perspectives on a Changing Society, ed. A. Park 119-25. London: Sage Publications Ltd.Guinier, L.1994. Tyranny of the majority: fundamental fairness in representative democracy. New York: The Free Press.Kelly, R. 2008. It Only Made Things Worse: A Critique of the Electoral System in Britain. The Political Quarterly 79(2):260-261.Lijphart, A. 1997. Unequal participation: Democracy's unresolved dilemma. The American political review 91(1):1-14.