Thomas Hare was a British lawyer and supporter of electoral reform. He is credited with inventing the single transferable vote system of proportional representation which he was a proponent and defender of and is now used in national elections in Ireland and Malta, for elections to the Australian Senate and state elections, and in city elections in Northern Ireland, the United States, New Zealand and Scotland.
- Occupation
- politician, political scientist, lawyer, court reporter
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- March 28, 1806
- Died
- May 6, 1891
