In the parliamentary politics of the United Kingdom[1][2] and Canada, one member, one vote (OMOV) is a method of selecting party leaders, and determining party policy, by a direct vote of the members of a political party. Traditionally, these objectives have been accomplished either by a party conference, party convention, vote of members of parliament, or some form of electoral college. OMOV backers claim that OMOV enhances the practice of democracy, because ordinary citizens will be able to participate. Detractors counter that allowing those unversed in the issues to help make decisions makes for bad governance.
The use of OMOV is placed in date order for each country:
- ^ Chartist - Whatever happened to One Member One Vote? Archived 2006-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Tom Watson - Labour MP: One member one vote". Archived from the original on 2006-10-06. Retrieved 2007-01-06.
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