The election returns probably won’t be known until 4 a.m. London time, but British exit polls suggest that no party got a majority of the 650 seats in the House of Commons.
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The June 8 Portland (Maine) Press Herald has this editorial, asking the legislature to make it possible to implement ranked choice voting by amending the Maine Constitution. Thanks to IVN for the link.
On June 7 and June 8, Maine LD 1571 passed second reading in both houses of the legislature. The bill says a newly-qualifying party has two elections, not just one, to satisfy the requirements to remain on the ballot. It also slightly improves the deadline for a newly-qualifying party, from December of the year before the election, to January of the election year.
The United Utah Party will hold its first state convention on June 17, in Draper, to select party officers and also to select a nominee for the special election for U.S. House. See this story, which says that if the state elections office won’t recognize the nomination, the party will sue.
On June 8, the North Carolina bill that moves the primary for all office from May to March was supposed to get a vote in the House. It had already passed the Senate. But instead, the bill was removed from the House calendar and sent to the House Rules Committee. The bill is SB 655.