Members of BBC Trust should be elected by the public not appointed by government

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Popularity

This petition has 1,789 signatures in total, with signatories from 578 constituencies. That makes it the 5,186th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 58% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 35% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 12 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 12 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 11 - Manchester, Withington
• 11 - Cambridge
• 11 - Bristol West
• 11 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 10 - South Swindon
• 10 - Camborne and Redruth
• 9 - Forest of Dean
• 9 - Swansea West
• 9 - Norwich South
• 9 - Lewisham East
• 8 - Chichester
• 8 - Weaver Vale
• 8 - Nottingham South
• 8 - St Ives
• 8 - Halton
• 8 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 8 - Garston and Halewood
• 8 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 7 - Knowsley
• 7 - Stockport
• 7 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 7 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 7 - Twickenham
• 7 - Islington North
• 7 - Gainsborough
• 7 - Coventry North East
• 7 - Wells
• 7 - Cynon Valley
• 7 - Stroud
• 7 - Eastbourne
• 7 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 7 - Bexhill and Battle
• 7 - Torbay
• 6 - Hazel Grove
• 6 - Wakefield
• 6 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 6 - South Dorset
• 6 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 6 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 6 - South West Devon
• 6 - Southport
• 6 - Skipton and Ripon
• 6 - Manchester, Gorton
• 6 - Liverpool, Walton
• 6 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 6 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 6 - North Devon
• 6 - Darlington
• 6 - Norwich North
• 6 - Leeds North West
• 6 - Putney
• 6 - Chipping Barnet
• 6 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 6 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 6 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 6 - East Yorkshire
• 6 - The Cotswolds
• 6 - Truro and Falmouth
• 6 - Aldershot
• 6 - Tottenham
• 6 - Tatton
• 6 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 6 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 6 - Arundel and South Downs
• 5 - Wolverhampton North East
• 5 - Easington
• 5 - East Devon
• 5 - Wyre Forest
• 5 - Dudley South
• 5 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 5 - North Durham
• 5 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 5 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 5 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 5 - Oxford East
• 5 - Portsmouth South
• 5 - Reading East
• 5 - Rochford and Southend East
• 5 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 5 - York Central
• 5 - Manchester Central
• 5 - Caerphilly
• 5 - Ogmore
• 5 - Hove
• 5 - Grantham and Stamford
• 5 - Isle of Wight
• 5 - Keighley
• 5 - Banbury
• 5 - Kensington
• 5 - Gower
• 5 - Alyn and Deeside
• 5 - Glasgow South
• 5 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 5 - Bath
• 5 - Central Ayrshire
• 5 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 5 - Great Grimsby
• 5 - Hastings and Rye
• 5 - Saffron Walden
• 5 - Central Devon
• 5 - Selby and Ainsty
• 5 - Canterbury
• 5 - Taunton Deane
• 5 - Bootle
• 5 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 5 - Broadland
• 5 - Southampton, Itchen
• 5 - South Suffolk
• 5 - Blaydon
• 5 - Chelmsford
• 5 - Rutland and Melton
• 5 - Streatham
• 5 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 5 - Chippenham
• 5 - Torridge and West Devon
• 5 - Rushcliffe
• 5 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 4 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 4 - Kettering
• 4 - Thirsk and Malton
• 4 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 4 - South Shields
• 4 - Leeds North East
• 4 - Edinburgh South West
• 4 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 4 - Leeds West
• 4 - Stockton North
• 4 - Tewkesbury
• 4 - Leicester West
• 4 - Hemsworth
• 4 - Heywood and Middleton
• 4 - Stafford
• 4 - Stretford and Urmston
• 4 - Sunderland Central
• 4 - Sutton and Cheam
• 4 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 4 - Huddersfield
• 4 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 4 - North Herefordshire
• 4 - Ceredigion
• 4 - Telford
• 4 - Cardiff West
• 4 - Witney
• 4 - Wirral South
• 4 - Wimbledon
• 4 - Sheffield Central
• 4 - North East Hertfordshire
• 4 - West Ham
• 4 - North Norfolk
• 4 - North Shropshire
• 4 - North West Norfolk
• 4 - Northampton South
• 4 - Tynemouth
• 4 - St Austell and Newquay
• 4 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 4 - Watford
• 4 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 4 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 4 - Newbury
• 4 - South Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 4 - Ludlow
• 4 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 4 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 4 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 4 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 4 - Totnes
• 4 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 4 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 4 - Mansfield
• 4 - Mid Derbyshire
• 4 - New Forest West
• 4 - Newark
• 4 - Rother Valley
• 4 - Blackburn
• 4 - Dover
• 4 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 4 - City of Durham
• 4 - Buckingham
• 4 - Cheadle
• 4 - Gosport
• 4 - Chesterfield
• 4 - Beverley and Holderness
• 4 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 4 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 4 - Croydon North
• 4 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 4 - Bristol North West
• 4 - Crawley
• 4 - Blyth Valley
• 3 - Woking
• 3 - Colne Valley
• 3 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 3 - Aberdeen North
• 3 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 3 - Doncaster North
• 3 - Weston-super-Mare
• 3 - West Lancashire
• 3 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 3 - West Worcestershire
• 3 - Wokingham
• 3 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 3 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 3 - Wycombe
• 3 - Bedford
• 3 - East Ham
• 3 - Worcester
• 3 - Eastleigh
• 3 - Reigate
• 3 - Mid Worcestershire
• 3 - Redcar
• 3 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 3 - Ealing North
• 3 - Derbyshire Dales
• 3 - Suffolk Coastal
• 3 - North Tyneside
• 3 - Surrey Heath
• 3 - Sutton Coldfield
• 3 - Wallasey
• 3 - North West Hampshire
• 3 - Vauxhall
• 3 - Bracknell
• 3 - Bolsover
• 3 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 3 - Tunbridge Wells
• 3 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 3 - Bournemouth West
• 3 - Warrington South
• 3 - Warwick and Leamington
• 3 - Birkenhead
• 3 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 3 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 3 - North Cornwall
• 3 - Brent Central
• 3 - North Dorset
• 3 - Derby North
• 3 - North East Bedfordshire
• 3 - North East Derbyshire
• 3 - Preston
• 3 - Bury South
• 3 - Dartford
• 3 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 3 - Blackpool South
• 3 - Stevenage
• 3 - Hammersmith
• 3 - Hertsmere
• 3 - Burton
• 3 - Barnsley Central
• 3 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 3 - Sheffield South East
• 3 - Huntingdon
• 3 - Cheltenham
• 3 - South West Bedfordshire
• 3 - South West Norfolk
• 3 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 3 - Gedling
• 3 - South West Surrey
• 3 - Cardiff Central
• 3 - Cardiff North
• 3 - Calder Valley
• 3 - Bury North
• 3 - Solihull
• 3 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 3 - Montgomeryshire
• 3 - Clwyd South
• 3 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 3 - Arfon
• 3 - South Leicestershire
• 3 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 3 - Ashford
• 3 - South Ribble
• 3 - Gateshead
• 3 - Fylde
• 3 - Epping Forest
• 3 - South Thanet
• 3 - Edinburgh South
• 3 - Epsom and Ewell
• 3 - Lewes
• 3 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 3 - Enfield, Southgate
• 3 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 3 - Edinburgh East
• 3 - Lincoln
• 3 - Eltham
• 3 - Bassetlaw
• 3 - Loughborough
• 3 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 3 - Southampton, Test
• 3 - Salford and Eccles
• 3 - Feltham and Heston
• 3 - Batley and Spen
• 3 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 3 - St Albans
• 3 - Rochester and Strood
• 2 - South Norfolk
• 2 - Bradford West
• 2 - Bournemouth East
• 2 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 2 - South East Cornwall
• 2 - Brigg and Goole
• 2 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 2 - Wrexham
• 2 - Bristol South
• 2 - Stone
• 2 - Braintree
• 2 - Esher and Walton
• 2 - St Helens North
• 2 - South West Wiltshire
• 2 - Bosworth
• 2 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 2 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 2 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 2 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 2 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 2 - Midlothian
• 2 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 2 - Inverclyde
• 2 - Basingstoke
• 2 - Glasgow North
• 2 - Glasgow East
• 2 - Glasgow Central
• 2 - Stirling
• 2 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 2 - Delyn
• 2 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 2 - Amber Valley
• 2 - Blaenau Gwent
• 2 - Ashfield
• 2 - Aylesbury
• 2 - Vale of Clwyd
• 2 - Newport West
• 2 - Torfaen
• 2 - Rhondda
• 2 - Aberavon
• 2 - Llanelli
• 2 - Falkirk
• 2 - Edinburgh West
• 2 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 2 - Wellingborough
• 2 - Wealden
• 2 - Waveney
• 2 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 2 - Warrington North
• 2 - Walthamstow
• 2 - Walsall South
• 2 - Bishop Auckland
• 2 - Blackley and Broughton
• 2 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 2 - Tooting
• 2 - Belfast South
• 2 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 2 - Witham
• 2 - East Lothian
• 2 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 2 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 2 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 2 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 2 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 2 - York Outer
• 2 - Battersea
• 2 - Yeovil
• 2 - Wolverhampton South West
• 2 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 2 - Bolton South East
• 2 - Derby South
• 2 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 2 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 2 - Hertford and Stortford
• 2 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 2 - Pendle
• 2 - Henley
• 2 - Milton Keynes North
• 2 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 2 - Leigh
• 2 - Corby
• 2 - Hemel Hempstead
• 2 - Middlesbrough
• 2 - Portsmouth North
• 2 - Mid Norfolk
• 2 - Pudsey
• 2 - Congleton
• 2 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 2 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 2 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 2 - North East Hampshire
• 2 - Jarrow
• 2 - Devizes
• 2 - North Swindon
• 2 - North Warwickshire
• 2 - Kingswood
• 2 - Doncaster Central
• 2 - North Wiltshire
• 2 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 2 - Hyndburn
• 2 - Gravesham
• 2 - Morley and Outwood
• 2 - Coventry South
• 2 - Leeds Central
• 2 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 2 - Lichfield
• 2 - South Derbyshire
• 2 - Louth and Horncastle
• 2 - Harrow East
• 2 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 2 - Scunthorpe
• 2 - Sedgefield
• 2 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 2 - Chorley
• 2 - Sherwood
• 2 - Shipley
• 2 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 2 - Carlisle
• 2 - Somerton and Frome
• 2 - City of Chester
• 2 - Colchester
• 2 - Maldon
• 2 - Ribble Valley
• 2 - Halifax
• 2 - Clacton
• 2 - Rotherham
• 2 - Meriden
• 2 - Makerfield
• 2 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - Macclesfield
• 1 - Dundee East
• 1 - Glasgow South West
• 1 - Broxtowe
• 1 - Glasgow North West
• 1 - Glenrothes
• 1 - Aberdeen South
• 1 - Fareham
• 1 - Angus
• 1 - Erewash
• 1 - Luton North
• 1 - Exeter
• 1 - Leeds East
• 1 - Na h-Eileanan an Iar
• 1 - Edmonton
• 1 - Enfield North
• 1 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 1 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 1 - East Dunbartonshire
• 1 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 1 - Luton South
• 1 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 1 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 1 - East Renfrewshire
• 1 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Hartlepool
• 1 - Havant
• 1 - Barking
• 1 - Hayes and Harlington
• 1 - Clwyd West
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 1 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 1 - Neath
• 1 - Harborough
• 1 - Islwyn
• 1 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 1 - Pontypridd
• 1 - Harlow
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 1 - Harrow West
• 1 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 1 - Newport East
• 1 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 1 - Ipswich
• 1 - Gloucester
• 1 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 1 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 1 - Moray
• 1 - Livingston
• 1 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 1 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 1 - Ilford North
• 1 - Horsham
• 1 - Monmouth
• 1 - Hendon
• 1 - High Peak
• 1 - Barnsley East
• 1 - Barrow and Furness
• 1 - Great Yarmouth
• 1 - Ynys Môn
• 1 - West Dunbartonshire
• 1 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 1 - Maidenhead
• 1 - Croydon Central
• 1 - Coventry North West
• 1 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 1 - Penrith and The Border
• 1 - Tamworth
• 1 - Peterborough
• 1 - Bradford East
• 1 - Bradford South
• 1 - Poole
• 1 - Boston and Skegness
• 1 - Orpington
• 1 - Thornbury and Yate
• 1 - Nottingham East
• 1 - Nottingham North
• 1 - Nuneaton
• 1 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 1 - Oldham West and Royton
• 1 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 1 - Bolton North East
• 1 - Thurrock
• 1 - Copeland
• 1 - Stourbridge
• 1 - Reading West
• 1 - Bromsgrove
• 1 - Broxbourne
• 1 - Sevenoaks
• 1 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 1 - Burnley
• 1 - South Staffordshire
• 1 - South Northamptonshire
• 1 - Cannock Chase
• 1 - Salisbury
• 1 - Southend West
• 1 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 1 - Redditch
• 1 - Brent North
• 1 - Stockton South
• 1 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 1 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 1 - Richmond Park
• 1 - Romford
• 1 - Bristol East
• 1 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 1 - West Tyrone
• 1 - Beckenham
• 1 - Wyre and Preston North
• 1 - Workington
• 1 - Wolverhampton South East
• 1 - Milton Keynes South
• 1 - Mitcham and Morden
• 1 - Mole Valley
• 1 - Wirral West
• 1 - Beaconsfield
• 1 - Meon Valley
• 1 - Belfast North
• 1 - South Antrim
• 1 - North Antrim
• 1 - Lagan Valley
• 1 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• 1 - East Londonderry
• 1 - East Antrim
• 1 - Belfast West
• 1 - Eddisbury
• 1 - Windsor
• 1 - Wigan
• 1 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 1 - North East Somerset
• 1 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 1 - Croydon South
• 1 - North Thanet
• 1 - Wantage
• 1 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 1 - North West Durham
• 1 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 1 - Denton and Reddish
• 1 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 1 - Newton Abbot
• 1 - Westminster North
• 1 - Don Valley
• 1 - West Suffolk
• 1 - Dewsbury
• 1 - West Dorset
• 1 - West Bromwich West
• 1 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 1 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 1 - Northampton North

Signatures by Region

• 235 - North West
• 235 - South East
• 216 - London
• 202 - South West
• 170 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 150 - East of England
• 136 - West Midlands
• 115 - East Midlands
• 110 - Wales
• 93 - North East
• 86 - Scotland
• 11 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,773 - United Kingdom
• 8 - Spain
• 4 - Australia
• 1 - France
• 1 - Italy
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - United States