Submitted on Friday 24th July 2015
Rejected on Monday 27th July 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Electoral reform: FPTP is archaic. Proportional representation is necessary
First past the post has elected a majority government (not for the first time) with just over a third of the vote. Regardless of your party preference it is plain to see that this is undemocratic in what is now a multi party country. FPTP only acts to preserve the status quo for two main parties
The Liberal democrats, UKIP and the Green Party received ~24.4% of the vote in 2015. Yet between them hold 10/650 seats (aprox 1.5% of total seats in parliament).
On the other hand the main two parties received ~2/3 of the votes for a 85% share of the seats.
Regardless of your ideological views, you must agree that this parliament is non representative of the electorate in this country and allows the Labour Party and The Conservatives to govern in unchallenged majority governments.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We cannot accept duplicate petitions. We think this petition is similar to yours:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104324
You might like to sign this petition instead. It is more likely to get more signatures that way.
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