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Drop the minimal voting age for future referendums to sixteen across the UK

Submitted on Friday 24th June 2016

Rejected on Tuesday 28th June 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Drop the minimal voting age for future referendums to sixteen across the UK

Petition Details

Following the EU referendum, it would be just to give both sixteen and seventeen year olds a say in referendums that will equally impact them, as much as people above the current voting age.

Additional Information

To permit sixteen and seventeen year olds across the United Kingdom to be given the right to vote in all future national referendums.


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This petition was rejected

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.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/119769

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