Tell us your heart vote and your smart vote in Banbury
Those of us who want a change at the next election will have to act differently by voting tactically for the progressive party best placed to win.
We know how hard it is to put your X in the box for a candidate who isn't your first choice but, in our current First-Past-The-Post voting system, this is what millions of us have to do to beat the Conservatives. Tactical voting is only necessary in our rotten electoral system. With Proportional Representation (PR), people could vote with their heart, and not worry about smart voting.
We want to make sure this election is the last time we have to vote tactically.
To achieve this change we need to vote for the candidate who is both best placed to defeat the Conservatives and committed to fighting for PR.
For Banbury, the candidate who fits this double bill is the Labour candidate, Sean Woodcock.
In the 2019 general election, Labour were placed 2nd to the Conservatives, receiving 17,335 votes. This gave them twice as many votes as the LibDems and more than 6 times as many as the Greens. Since 2019, Conservative support has plummeted enabling the Labour to close the gap.
So, it's going to be a tight race, which is why tactical voting will be crucial to getting Sean over the line.

At Compass, we've built this action where you can confidentially register who you'd truly love to vote for, your Vote Heart, and where you'd lend your vote to defeat the Conservative candidate and win a new voting system, your Vote Smart.
By indicating that you want to vote a different way, you are growing our group's leverage to change the voting system. Tell Sean: 'To represent me in Parliament, you must represent me on democratic reform, and fight for this to be the last time I have to lend you my vote, and vote smart.'
PLEASE NOTE: Registering your Heart and Smart votes is completely confidential – all data will be aggregated and anonymised – but we’ll share the running totals publicly so we can all see where progressive support is coming from as the General Election approaches.