Make it a criminal offence for candidates to knowingly lie in election campaigns

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Popularity

This petition has 889 signatures in total, with signatories from 355 constituencies. That makes it the 7,398th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 30% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 45% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 42 - Bournemouth East
• 23 - Poole
• 22 - North Dorset
• 19 - West Dorset
• 18 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 16 - South Dorset
• 15 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 14 - Christchurch
• 11 - New Forest West
• 10 - Bournemouth West
• 10 - South West Wiltshire
• 9 - Newton Abbot
• 8 - Bath
• 8 - Chippenham
• 7 - Oxford East
• 6 - Basingstoke
• 6 - Gosport
• 6 - Wellingborough
• 6 - Isle of Wight
• 6 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 5 - Twickenham
• 5 - Derby North
• 5 - St Albans
• 5 - Central Devon
• 5 - Wealden
• 5 - North West Hampshire
• 5 - Cardiff Central
• 5 - Sutton Coldfield
• 5 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 5 - Wolverhampton South West
• 5 - Stretford and Urmston
• 4 - Thornbury and Yate
• 4 - South West Devon
• 4 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 4 - St Ives
• 4 - Enfield North
• 4 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 4 - North Shropshire
• 4 - Milton Keynes North
• 4 - Witney
• 4 - Windsor
• 4 - Amber Valley
• 4 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 4 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 4 - Guildford
• 3 - Truro and Falmouth
• 3 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 3 - East Surrey
• 3 - Penrith and The Border
• 3 - Clwyd South
• 3 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 3 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 3 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 3 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 3 - North East Bedfordshire
• 3 - North Cornwall
• 3 - Southampton, Itchen
• 3 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 3 - Ludlow
• 3 - Southampton, Test
• 3 - Maidenhead
• 3 - Manchester Central
• 3 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 3 - Stourbridge
• 3 - Monmouth
• 3 - South Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Preston
• 3 - Esher and Walton
• 3 - Vauxhall
• 3 - Wells
• 3 - Wantage
• 3 - Wrexham
• 3 - Burton
• 3 - Canterbury
• 3 - Bedford
• 3 - Cambridge
• 3 - Camborne and Redruth
• 3 - Beckenham
• 3 - Bassetlaw
• 2 - Inverclyde
• 2 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 2 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 2 - Bristol West
• 2 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 2 - Luton North
• 2 - South Ribble
• 2 - Nottingham East
• 2 - Rother Valley
• 2 - Woking
• 2 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 2 - Rochford and Southend East
• 2 - Salisbury
• 2 - Somerton and Frome
• 2 - South East Cornwall
• 2 - Southend West
• 2 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 2 - Bristol South
• 2 - Islington North
• 2 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 2 - Horsham
• 2 - Kensington
• 2 - Gateshead
• 2 - South Derbyshire
• 2 - West Lancashire
• 2 - Meriden
• 2 - Richmond Park
• 2 - North East Hampshire
• 2 - Orpington
• 2 - North East Somerset
• 2 - North Herefordshire
• 2 - Battersea
• 2 - North Thanet
• 2 - North Tyneside
• 2 - North West Leicestershire
• 2 - Banbury
• 2 - Norwich South
• 2 - Pendle
• 2 - Nottingham North
• 2 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 2 - Portsmouth South
• 2 - Mid Derbyshire
• 2 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 2 - Midlothian
• 2 - Mid Norfolk
• 2 - Wokingham
• 2 - Milton Keynes South
• 2 - Newark
• 2 - Reading East
• 2 - New Forest East
• 2 - Worcester
• 2 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 2 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 2 - Arundel and South Downs
• 2 - East Yorkshire
• 2 - Forest of Dean
• 2 - East Devon
• 2 - Ceredigion
• 2 - Waveney
• 2 - Dundee West
• 2 - Tooting
• 2 - Derby South
• 2 - Torbay
• 2 - Warrington North
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 2 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 2 - Suffolk Coastal
• 2 - Erewash
• 2 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 2 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 2 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 2 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 2 - Calder Valley
• 2 - Telford
• 2 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 2 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 2 - Coventry North East
• 2 - Halifax
• 2 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 2 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 2 - Broadland
• 2 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 2 - Walthamstow
• 2 - Spelthorne
• 2 - South West Bedfordshire
• 2 - Chichester
• 2 - Walsall South
• 2 - South Thanet
• 2 - Glasgow South
• 1 - Reading West
• 1 - Tatton
• 1 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 1 - Warwick and Leamington
• 1 - Wolverhampton South East
• 1 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 1 - Ynys Môn
• 1 - Workington
• 1 - Peterborough
• 1 - Tottenham
• 1 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 1 - Yeovil
• 1 - Buckingham
• 1 - Warley
• 1 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 1 - Portsmouth North
• 1 - Tunbridge Wells
• 1 - Wansbeck
• 1 - Worthing West
• 1 - Taunton Deane
• 1 - Torridge and West Devon
• 1 - Swansea West
• 1 - Redcar
• 1 - Sheffield South East
• 1 - Skipton and Ripon
• 1 - St Austell and Newquay
• 1 - Weston-super-Mare
• 1 - Westminster North
• 1 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 1 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 1 - West Dunbartonshire
• 1 - Stafford
• 1 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 1 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 1 - South West Surrey
• 1 - South West Hertfordshire
• 1 - South Norfolk
• 1 - South Northamptonshire
• 1 - South Shields
• 1 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 1 - Sefton Central
• 1 - Reigate
• 1 - Surrey Heath
• 1 - Ribble Valley
• 1 - Strangford
• 1 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 1 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 1 - Winchester
• 1 - Stockport
• 1 - Wimbledon
• 1 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 1 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 1 - St Helens North
• 1 - Saffron Walden
• 1 - Salford and Eccles
• 1 - Wigan
• 1 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 1 - South Staffordshire
• 1 - Gedling
• 1 - Ealing, Southall
• 1 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 1 - Doncaster Central
• 1 - Devizes
• 1 - Derbyshire Dales
• 1 - Cynon Valley
• 1 - Croydon South
• 1 - Croydon North
• 1 - Croydon Central
• 1 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 1 - Colchester
• 1 - Chorley
• 1 - Chipping Barnet
• 1 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 1 - East Hampshire
• 1 - East Lothian
• 1 - Garston and Halewood
• 1 - Gainsborough
• 1 - Fylde
• 1 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 1 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - Fareham
• 1 - Exeter
• 1 - Enfield, Southgate
• 1 - Eltham
• 1 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 1 - Edinburgh South
• 1 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 1 - Edinburgh East
• 1 - Chesham and Amersham
• 1 - Cheltenham
• 1 - Bracknell
• 1 - Bosworth
• 1 - Boston and Skegness
• 1 - Bolton South East
• 1 - Bishop Auckland
• 1 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 1 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 1 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 1 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 1 - Bexhill and Battle
• 1 - Beverley and Holderness
• 1 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 1 - Beaconsfield
• 1 - Barking
• 1 - Brent North
• 1 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 1 - Chelmsford
• 1 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 1 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 1 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 1 - Bury St Edmunds
• 1 - Bury South
• 1 - Bury North
• 1 - Broxtowe
• 1 - Broxbourne
• 1 - Bromsgrove
• 1 - Bristol East
• 1 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 1 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Ashford
• 1 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 1 - Newbury
• 1 - Na h-Eileanan an Iar
• 1 - Moray
• 1 - Mole Valley
• 1 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 1 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 1 - Meon Valley
• 1 - Manchester, Withington
• 1 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 1 - Macclesfield
• 1 - Livingston
• 1 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 1 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 1 - Newport West
• 1 - Northampton North
• 1 - Ogmore
• 1 - Nuneaton
• 1 - Nottingham South
• 1 - Henley
• 1 - North Wiltshire
• 1 - North Warwickshire
• 1 - North Swindon
• 1 - North Somerset
• 1 - North Norfolk
• 1 - North East Hertfordshire
• 1 - North East Derbyshire
• 1 - North Durham
• 1 - North Devon
• 1 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 1 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 1 - Lewisham East
• 1 - Hexham
• 1 - Hertsmere
• 1 - Hertford and Stortford
• 1 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 1 - Hemel Hempstead
• 1 - Hayes and Harlington
• 1 - Harwich and North Essex
• 1 - Harborough
• 1 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 1 - Gower
• 1 - Gordon
• 1 - Glenrothes
• 1 - Glasgow North West
• 1 - Glasgow North
• 1 - High Peak
• 1 - Hove
• 1 - Lewes
• 1 - Leicester East
• 1 - Leeds West
• 1 - Leeds North West
• 1 - Leeds North East
• 1 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 1 - Kingswood
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 1 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 1 - Kettering
• 1 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 1 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 1 - Huntingdon
• 1 - Huddersfield
• 1 - Glasgow East

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

Signatures by Region

• 286 - South West
• 159 - South East
• 72 - London
• 61 - East of England
• 61 - West Midlands
• 55 - North West
• 49 - East Midlands
• 33 - Wales
• 27 - Scotland
• 25 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 12 - North East
• 1 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 850 - United Kingdom
• 21 - France
• 9 - Spain
• 4 - Netherlands
• 1 - Japan
• 1 - Ireland
• 1 - Guadeloupe
• 1 - Australia
• 1 - Germany
• 1 - Belgium
• 1 - Poland