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Mandatory bye elections in constituencies where a serving MP leaves their party

Submitted on Sunday 31st March 2019

Rejected on Wednesday 3rd April 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Mandatory bye elections in constituencies where a serving MP leaves their party

Petition Details

Several MPs have recently left the parties under which they were elected to Parliament. Their constituents should have the opportunity to decide whether they still want to have their MP represent them by having a mandatory bye election when this occurs.


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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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