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When an MP leaves a political party, a by-election must be triggered.

Submitted on Friday 22nd February 2019

Rejected on Wednesday 27th February 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

When an MP leaves a political party, a by-election must be triggered.

Petition Details

Many voters vote for a political party regardless of who the candidate is, therefore if the MP leaves that party, there should be a by-election triggered automatically.


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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.

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