Repeal the 1955 canal closure act.

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Popularity

This petition has 1,074 signatures in total, with signatories from 412 constituencies. That makes it the 7,630th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 39% (very low) and a Local Issue Rating of 39% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 14 - St Helens North
• 13 - South Swindon
• 12 - North Wiltshire
• 11 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 11 - Daventry
• 10 - Stroud
• 10 - Eddisbury
• 10 - Heywood and Middleton
• 10 - Wyre and Preston North
• 9 - Aldershot
• 9 - Lichfield
• 9 - South Derbyshire
• 8 - Rushcliffe
• 8 - South West Bedfordshire
• 8 - Warrington South
• 7 - Bolton South East
• 7 - Chesham and Amersham
• 7 - Chippenham
• 7 - North Warwickshire
• 7 - Hemel Hempstead
• 7 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 6 - North Shropshire
• 6 - Reading West
• 6 - Rugby
• 6 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 6 - Stone
• 6 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 6 - North West Leicestershire
• 6 - Hertford and Stortford
• 6 - Ludlow
• 6 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 6 - Devizes
• 6 - Dewsbury
• 6 - Wellingborough
• 6 - Warrington North
• 5 - North East Somerset
• 5 - Calder Valley
• 5 - Harlow
• 5 - Bury North
• 5 - North West Hampshire
• 5 - East Surrey
• 5 - Fylde
• 5 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 5 - Leigh
• 5 - Chorley
• 5 - Gedling
• 5 - Rochdale
• 5 - Ribble Valley
• 5 - North Devon
• 5 - Mid Worcestershire
• 5 - South West Hertfordshire
• 5 - Winchester
• 5 - Watford
• 5 - Bath
• 5 - Buckingham
• 4 - North Swindon
• 4 - Eastleigh
• 4 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 4 - Weaver Vale
• 4 - Penrith and The Border
• 4 - Warwick and Leamington
• 4 - Wantage
• 4 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 4 - Milton Keynes South
• 4 - Wokingham
• 4 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 4 - Hertsmere
• 4 - Edinburgh West
• 4 - North East Hertfordshire
• 4 - Banbury
• 4 - Barnsley Central
• 4 - Gainsborough
• 4 - Skipton and Ripon
• 4 - Barrow and Furness
• 4 - Makerfield
• 4 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 4 - Cheltenham
• 4 - South Ribble
• 4 - Charnwood
• 4 - St Austell and Newquay
• 4 - Tamworth
• 4 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 4 - The Wrekin
• 4 - Colne Valley
• 4 - Central Devon
• 4 - South West Wiltshire
• 4 - Bury South
• 4 - Corby
• 3 - Mansfield
• 3 - Manchester, Withington
• 3 - Solihull
• 3 - Lincoln
• 3 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 3 - Worcester
• 3 - South Staffordshire
• 3 - Hayes and Harlington
• 3 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 3 - Montgomeryshire
• 3 - Monmouth
• 3 - High Peak
• 3 - Delyn
• 3 - Huntingdon
• 3 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 3 - St Albans
• 3 - Harborough
• 3 - Milton Keynes North
• 3 - Salford and Eccles
• 3 - Taunton Deane
• 3 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Tewkesbury
• 3 - Rother Valley
• 3 - Walthamstow
• 3 - Rochester and Strood
• 3 - Torridge and West Devon
• 3 - Reading East
• 3 - Vauxhall
• 3 - West Ham
• 3 - North Norfolk
• 3 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 3 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 3 - Stretford and Urmston
• 3 - North Dorset
• 3 - West Dorset
• 3 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 3 - Westminster North
• 3 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Kettering
• 3 - West Suffolk
• 3 - Truro and Falmouth
• 3 - Forest of Dean
• 3 - Congleton
• 3 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 3 - Bristol North West
• 3 - Bury St Edmunds
• 3 - Derby North
• 3 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 3 - Bristol West
• 3 - Bedford
• 3 - Bromsgrove
• 3 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 3 - Coventry South
• 3 - Cleethorpes
• 3 - Bolton West
• 3 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 3 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 3 - Gloucester
• 3 - Cheadle
• 3 - Halton
• 2 - North West Norfolk
• 2 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 2 - West Worcestershire
• 2 - Northampton South
• 2 - Norwich North
• 2 - South Dorset
• 2 - West Lancashire
• 2 - Thurrock
• 2 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 2 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 2 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 2 - Wirral South
• 2 - North Somerset
• 2 - Doncaster North
• 2 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 2 - Thornbury and Yate
• 2 - East Hampshire
• 2 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 2 - South Leicestershire
• 2 - Beaconsfield
• 2 - Weston-super-Mare
• 2 - North East Derbyshire
• 2 - Don Valley
• 2 - Nuneaton
• 2 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 2 - West Bromwich West
• 2 - Coventry North East
• 2 - Chelmsford
• 2 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 2 - Wigan
• 2 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 2 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 2 - Warley
• 2 - Salisbury
• 2 - Twickenham
• 2 - Walsall South
• 2 - Walsall North
• 2 - Sherwood
• 2 - Richmond Park
• 2 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 2 - West Bromwich East
• 2 - Dartford
• 2 - Pendle
• 2 - Somerton and Frome
• 2 - Totnes
• 2 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 2 - Portsmouth North
• 2 - Portsmouth South
• 2 - Wells
• 2 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 2 - Crawley
• 2 - Wolverhampton North East
• 2 - Stourbridge
• 2 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 2 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 2 - Grantham and Stamford
• 2 - Wrexham
• 2 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 2 - Broadland
• 2 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 2 - Surrey Heath
• 2 - Aylesbury
• 2 - Isle of Wight
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 2 - Southend West
• 2 - Edinburgh East
• 2 - Gravesham
• 2 - Ipswich
• 2 - Bristol East
• 2 - Blaenau Gwent
• 2 - Hemsworth
• 2 - Henley
• 2 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 2 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 2 - Amber Valley
• 2 - Clwyd South
• 2 - Vale of Clwyd
• 2 - Brent North
• 2 - Ashfield
• 2 - Tatton
• 2 - Feltham and Heston
• 2 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 2 - The Cotswolds
• 2 - Wyre Forest
• 2 - Fareham
• 2 - Erewash
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 2 - Basildon and Billericay
• 2 - Newbury
• 2 - Mitcham and Morden
• 2 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 2 - Basingstoke
• 2 - Wolverhampton South West
• 2 - South Suffolk
• 2 - Meon Valley
• 2 - Mid Derbyshire
• 2 - Woking
• 2 - Burnley
• 2 - Macclesfield
• 2 - Maidenhead
• 2 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 2 - Maldon
• 2 - Burton
• 1 - Streatham
• 1 - Bournemouth West
• 1 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 1 - Bootle
• 1 - Suffolk Coastal
• 1 - Telford
• 1 - Brent Central
• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
• 1 - Bracknell
• 1 - Sunderland Central
• 1 - Bosworth
• 1 - Thirsk and Malton
• 1 - Braintree
• 1 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 1 - Caerphilly
• 1 - Midlothian
• 1 - Gordon
• 1 - Glasgow South
• 1 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 1 - Dundee East
• 1 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 1 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 1 - Banff and Buchan
• 1 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 1 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 1 - Ynys Môn
• 1 - Ogmore
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Neath
• 1 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 1 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 1 - Ceredigion
• 1 - Clwyd West
• 1 - Arfon
• 1 - Rhondda
• 1 - Argyll and Bute
• 1 - Lagan Valley
• 1 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 1 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 1 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 1 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 1 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 1 - Blackley and Broughton
• 1 - Blyth Valley
• 1 - Wansbeck
• 1 - Bolton North East
• 1 - Bexhill and Battle
• 1 - Blackpool South
• 1 - Belfast East
• 1 - York Central
• 1 - Wycombe
• 1 - Wolverhampton South East
• 1 - Bassetlaw
• 1 - Witney
• 1 - Windsor
• 1 - Batley and Spen
• 1 - Wimbledon
• 1 - Wallasey
• 1 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 1 - North Thanet
• 1 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 1 - Meriden
• 1 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 1 - Manchester, Gorton
• 1 - Luton South
• 1 - Luton North
• 1 - Louth and Horncastle
• 1 - Loughborough
• 1 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 1 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 1 - Epping Forest
• 1 - Enfield North
• 1 - Mole Valley
• 1 - Ealing North
• 1 - East Devon
• 1 - North East Bedfordshire
• 1 - North Cornwall
• 1 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 1 - Newton Abbot
• 1 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 1 - Newark
• 1 - New Forest East
• 1 - Eltham
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 1 - Leicester West
• 1 - Great Yarmouth
• 1 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 1 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 1 - Guildford
• 1 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 1 - Hazel Grove
• 1 - Halifax
• 1 - Havant
• 1 - Harrow West
• 1 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 1 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 1 - Hove
• 1 - Huddersfield
• 1 - Leicester South
• 1 - Leeds West
• 1 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 1 - Kingswood
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 1 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 1 - Gosport
• 1 - Kensington
• 1 - Ilford South
• 1 - Great Grimsby
• 1 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 1 - Slough
• 1 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 1 - South East Cornwall
• 1 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 1 - South Cambridgeshire
• 1 - Lewisham East
• 1 - Chichester
• 1 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 1 - Shipley
• 1 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 1 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 1 - Cannock Chase
• 1 - South Thanet
• 1 - South West Devon
• 1 - Stockport
• 1 - Stafford
• 1 - St Ives
• 1 - Spelthorne
• 1 - Southport
• 1 - Southampton, Test
• 1 - Southampton, Itchen
• 1 - Broxtowe
• 1 - South West Surrey
• 1 - South West Norfolk
• 1 - Sheffield South East
• 1 - Sheffield Central
• 1 - Selby and Ainsty
• 1 - Orpington
• 1 - Oldham West and Royton
• 1 - Nottingham South
• 1 - Nottingham North
• 1 - Nottingham East
• 1 - Norwich South
• 1 - Northampton North
• 1 - Derby South
• 1 - Derbyshire Dales
• 1 - Doncaster Central
• 1 - Croydon Central
• 1 - Peterborough
• 1 - Pudsey
• 1 - Sefton Central
• 1 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 1 - Chipping Barnet
• 1 - Rutland and Melton
• 1 - Clacton
• 1 - Rochford and Southend East
• 1 - Copeland
• 1 - Coventry North West
• 1 - Reigate
• 1 - Redditch
• 1 - North Tyneside

This petition was submitted under the Parliamentary boundaries prior to June 2024, so the names may not be current constituency names

Signatures by Region

• 210 - North West
• 144 - South West
• 142 - West Midlands
• 141 - South East
• 116 - East Midlands
• 110 - East of England
• 75 - London
• 57 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 33 - Wales
• 19 - Scotland
• 8 - North East
• 2 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,064 - United Kingdom
• 4 - Ireland
• 2 - France
• 1 - Australia
• 1 - Spain
• 1 - New Zealand
• 1 - South Africa