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Default to by-elections if MP changes allegiance to another political party,

Submitted on Tuesday 18th June 2019

Rejected on Friday 28th June 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Default to by-elections if MP changes allegiance to another political party,

Petition Details

Recently there has been a number of examples where MPs who have been elected to a party by the electorate and then changed allegiance without reference to the electorate in that constituency. This is unfair to the electorate.

Additional Information

One MP who stood on a Labour manifesto left to become an independent party and then changed allegiance again to become an SDP member. This is unfair on the electorate as they believe they were voting for a Labour MP.


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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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