Felix Sargent (Election Science)
Former Board Chair @ Center For Election Science
I’m an engineering manager and technical leader with a background in software, product development, and organizational decision-making.
Alongside that, I’ve built a substantial parallel body of work in electoral reform, voting systems, and democratic institutions. I previously served on the board of the Center for Election Science, including as board chair, and I’ve spent years thinking about how electoral rules, incentives, and institutional design shape political outcomes.
My interests sit at the intersection of technology, public reasoning, and social choice: how collective decisions get made, where systems break down, and what better designs might look like. I’m particularly interested in making these ideas accessible and practically useful, whether through public writing, data projects, explainers, or movement-building.
More recently, I’ve been building projects focused on UK election results, proportional representation, and the mechanics of how votes turn into outcomes. I’m especially interested in connecting with people working on:
Reform have publically called for proportional representation, and included it in their 2024 manifesto: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/25/nigel-farage-proportional-representation-reformuk-seats/
I'm sorry if this came off as anti-reform in any way. That's not the problem. The problem is one the UK is suffering from now where you can get 63% of the seats in parliament on 34% of the vote. That's anti-democratic.
For more numbers on how FPTP skews UK politics, see https://electionresults.uk which goes back a decade and finds severe failures every time.
The US suffers this problem as well. This is what The Center for Election Science is working on, but the story here is that in the UK the ROI is so much higher per capita.
Nothing else matters reform because without putting reform any voting policy change won’t actually take effect