Make August 1st of each year a bank holiday - the 'Abolition of Slavery Day'

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 3,056 signatures in total, with signatories from 602 constituencies. That makes it the 3,849th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 54% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 42% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 85 - Croydon North
• 27 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 25 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 25 - Croydon Central
• 25 - Stevenage
• 22 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 22 - Tooting
• 21 - Vauxhall
• 20 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 20 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 20 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 20 - Tottenham
• 19 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 19 - Walthamstow
• 19 - Lewisham East
• 17 - Ealing North
• 16 - Enfield North
• 16 - Battersea
• 16 - Manchester Central
• 16 - East Ham
• 15 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 15 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 14 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 14 - Brent Central
• 14 - Bristol West
• 14 - Barking
• 13 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 13 - Mitcham and Morden
• 13 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 13 - Streatham
• 13 - Bristol North West
• 13 - West Ham
• 13 - Slough
• 13 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 12 - Glasgow Central
• 12 - Derby South
• 12 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 12 - Coventry North East
• 12 - Norwich South
• 11 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 11 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 11 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 11 - Bristol East
• 11 - Putney
• 11 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 11 - Ealing, Southall
• 10 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 10 - Islington North
• 10 - Chipping Barnet
• 10 - Manchester, Withington
• 10 - Ilford South
• 10 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 10 - Epping Forest
• 10 - Bristol South
• 10 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 10 - Ilford North
• 10 - Eastbourne
• 10 - Hayes and Harlington
• 10 - South Northamptonshire
• 10 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 10 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 10 - Leicester East
• 10 - Surrey Heath
• 10 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 9 - Edinburgh South
• 9 - Stirling
• 9 - Swansea West
• 9 - Aylesbury
• 9 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 9 - Eltham
• 9 - South West Hertfordshire
• 9 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 9 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 9 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 9 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 9 - Edinburgh East
• 9 - Blackley and Broughton
• 9 - East Renfrewshire
• 9 - Thurrock
• 9 - Livingston
• 9 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 9 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 8 - Cheadle
• 8 - Windsor
• 8 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 8 - Luton South
• 8 - Cheltenham
• 8 - Gedling
• 8 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 8 - Watford
• 8 - Milton Keynes South
• 8 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 8 - Hammersmith
• 8 - Edmonton
• 8 - Reading West
• 8 - South Cambridgeshire
• 8 - Banbury
• 8 - Wycombe
• 7 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 7 - Hertford and Stortford
• 7 - Hemel Hempstead
• 7 - Croydon South
• 7 - Hendon
• 7 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 7 - Daventry
• 7 - Harrow West
• 7 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 7 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 7 - Tamworth
• 7 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 7 - North East Bedfordshire
• 7 - North East Hertfordshire
• 7 - Chelmsford
• 7 - St Albans
• 7 - Birmingham, Perry Barr
• 7 - Nottingham South
• 7 - Newport West
• 7 - Richmond Park
• 7 - Sheffield Central
• 7 - Romford
• 7 - Rushcliffe
• 7 - Brent North
• 7 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 7 - Leeds North East
• 7 - Broxbourne
• 7 - South Derbyshire
• 7 - Manchester, Gorton
• 7 - Colchester
• 7 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 6 - Sevenoaks
• 6 - West Worcestershire
• 6 - Westminster North
• 6 - Feltham and Heston
• 6 - Warley
• 6 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 6 - Leeds Central
• 6 - Saffron Walden
• 6 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 6 - Salford and Eccles
• 6 - Rochford and Southend East
• 6 - Wimbledon
• 6 - Mole Valley
• 6 - Reigate
• 6 - Portsmouth South
• 6 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 6 - Hove
• 6 - Lincoln
• 6 - Stretford and Urmston
• 6 - Milton Keynes North
• 6 - Stourbridge
• 6 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 6 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 6 - Norwich North
• 6 - Nottingham East
• 6 - Truro and Falmouth
• 6 - North Devon
• 6 - Oxford East
• 6 - Lichfield
• 6 - Woking
• 6 - Fareham
• 6 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 6 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 6 - Carlisle
• 6 - Derby North
• 6 - Glasgow South
• 6 - Cambridge
• 6 - Glasgow North
• 6 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 6 - Bedford
• 6 - Enfield, Southgate
• 6 - Exeter
• 6 - Wokingham
• 6 - Cardiff West
• 6 - Dundee West
• 6 - Corby
• 5 - Wallasey
• 5 - Maldon
• 5 - Bury South
• 5 - Glasgow North West
• 5 - North Shropshire
• 5 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 5 - Mid Norfolk
• 5 - Nottingham North
• 5 - Twickenham
• 5 - Yeovil
• 5 - Tynemouth
• 5 - Leeds West
• 5 - Chichester
• 5 - Leicester South
• 5 - Chesterfield
• 5 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 5 - Edinburgh South West
• 5 - East Dunbartonshire
• 5 - Canterbury
• 5 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 5 - Kingswood
• 5 - Glasgow East
• 5 - Morley and Outwood
• 5 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 5 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 5 - South Swindon
• 5 - Cardiff Central
• 5 - South Ribble
• 5 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 5 - Pudsey
• 5 - Reading East
• 5 - Rother Valley
• 5 - Rugby
• 5 - Rutland and Melton
• 5 - Salisbury
• 5 - South West Bedfordshire
• 5 - South West Devon
• 5 - Northampton North
• 5 - Taunton Deane
• 5 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 5 - Braintree
• 5 - Sutton Coldfield
• 5 - Bradford South
• 5 - Bracknell
• 5 - North Durham
• 5 - Bootle
• 5 - North East Somerset
• 5 - Stockport
• 5 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 5 - North West Durham
• 5 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 5 - Heywood and Middleton
• 5 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 5 - East Surrey
• 5 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 5 - Argyll and Bute
• 5 - West Bromwich West
• 5 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 5 - Wealden
• 5 - Gravesham
• 5 - Hertsmere
• 5 - Grantham and Stamford
• 5 - Epsom and Ewell
• 5 - Ipswich
• 5 - Isle of Wight
• 5 - Kensington
• 5 - Harwich and North Essex
• 5 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 5 - Fylde
• 5 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 4 - Halton
• 4 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 4 - Moray
• 4 - Harlow
• 4 - Guildford
• 4 - Harborough
• 4 - Middlesbrough
• 4 - Wrexham
• 4 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 4 - York Outer
• 4 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 4 - Somerton and Frome
• 4 - St Ives
• 4 - North West Hampshire
• 4 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 4 - Cardiff North
• 4 - Peterborough
• 4 - Rochdale
• 4 - Ceredigion
• 4 - Basildon and Billericay
• 4 - Shipley
• 4 - Winchester
• 4 - Ashford
• 4 - Islwyn
• 4 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 4 - Wirral South
• 4 - Bassetlaw
• 4 - Bath
• 4 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 4 - Gosport
• 4 - Clwyd West
• 4 - South Dorset
• 4 - Gloucester
• 4 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 4 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 4 - Beckenham
• 4 - Batley and Spen
• 4 - Sefton Central
• 4 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 4 - Luton North
• 4 - Buckingham
• 4 - Torbay
• 4 - Mid Derbyshire
• 4 - Warrington South
• 4 - Banff and Buchan
• 4 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 4 - Leicester West
• 4 - Coventry South
• 4 - Huntingdon
• 4 - Falkirk
• 4 - Mansfield
• 4 - Glasgow North East
• 4 - Tunbridge Wells
• 4 - Derbyshire Dales
• 4 - Bury St Edmunds
• 4 - Kettering
• 4 - Dartford
• 4 - Aberdeen South
• 4 - Castle Point
• 4 - Mid Sussex
• 4 - Coventry North West
• 4 - Mid Worcestershire
• 4 - Blackburn
• 4 - Congleton
• 4 - West Bromwich East
• 4 - Makerfield
• 4 - Walsall South
• 4 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 4 - Belfast South
• 4 - Newark
• 4 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 4 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 4 - Leeds East
• 4 - South Antrim
• 4 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 4 - Broadland
• 4 - Aberdeen North
• 3 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 3 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 3 - Solihull
• 3 - Wolverhampton North East
• 3 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 3 - Wigan
• 3 - Caerphilly
• 3 - Clwyd South
• 3 - Walsall North
• 3 - Warwick and Leamington
• 3 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 3 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 3 - Ogmore
• 3 - Delyn
• 3 - Wells
• 3 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 3 - Spelthorne
• 3 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 3 - Worthing West
• 3 - Stone
• 3 - North Antrim
• 3 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 3 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 3 - Wyre Forest
• 3 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 3 - West Dorset
• 3 - Southport
• 3 - Southampton, Test
• 3 - Aberconwy
• 3 - South East Cornwall
• 3 - South Suffolk
• 3 - Weaver Vale
• 3 - Weston-super-Mare
• 3 - South Thanet
• 3 - Wolverhampton South East
• 3 - Wolverhampton South West
• 3 - Gower
• 3 - Wellingborough
• 3 - Worcester
• 3 - Midlothian
• 3 - Tatton
• 3 - North Thanet
• 3 - Horsham
• 3 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 3 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 3 - Gateshead
• 3 - Forest of Dean
• 3 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 3 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 3 - Esher and Walton
• 3 - Keighley
• 3 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 3 - Leeds North West
• 3 - North Swindon
• 3 - North Herefordshire
• 3 - North East Hampshire
• 3 - North East Derbyshire
• 3 - New Forest East
• 3 - Maidenhead
• 3 - Macclesfield
• 3 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 3 - Erewash
• 3 - Eastleigh
• 3 - Bromsgrove
• 3 - Bradford West
• 3 - Bolton South East
• 3 - Bolsover
• 3 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 3 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 3 - Basingstoke
• 3 - Barnsley Central
• 3 - Broxtowe
• 3 - Bury North
• 3 - Calder Valley
• 3 - East Hampshire
• 3 - East Devon
• 3 - Denton and Reddish
• 3 - City of Chester
• 3 - Chorley
• 3 - Chesham and Amersham
• 3 - Central Devon
• 3 - Camborne and Redruth
• 3 - Arundel and South Downs
• 3 - Northampton South
• 3 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 3 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 3 - Oldham West and Royton
• 3 - North West Norfolk
• 3 - North Warwickshire
• 3 - Rochester and Strood
• 3 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 3 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 3 - Scunthorpe
• 3 - Sedgefield
• 3 - North Wiltshire
• 2 - South Leicestershire
• 2 - Swansea East
• 2 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 2 - Wyre and Preston North
• 2 - Portsmouth North
• 2 - Easington
• 2 - York Central
• 2 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 2 - Belfast North
• 2 - West Lancashire
• 2 - Eddisbury
• 2 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 2 - Beverley and Holderness
• 2 - Orpington
• 2 - Arfon
• 2 - Great Yarmouth
• 2 - Poole
• 2 - Gainsborough
• 2 - City of Durham
• 2 - South Shields
• 2 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 2 - Aberavon
• 2 - Aldershot
• 2 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 2 - West Dunbartonshire
• 2 - Lagan Valley
• 2 - Brigg and Goole
• 2 - East Lothian
• 2 - Christchurch
• 2 - Ribble Valley
• 2 - Chippenham
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 2 - Edinburgh West
• 2 - Charnwood
• 2 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 2 - Glasgow South West
• 2 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 2 - Gordon
• 2 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 2 - Wantage
• 2 - Colne Valley
• 2 - Blyth Valley
• 2 - Doncaster North
• 2 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 2 - South Down
• 2 - West Tyrone
• 2 - Don Valley
• 2 - Dewsbury
• 2 - Devizes
• 2 - Angus
• 2 - Darlington
• 2 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 2 - Central Ayrshire
• 2 - Skipton and Ripon
• 2 - Harrow East
• 2 - Telford
• 2 - Ashfield
• 2 - Tewkesbury
• 2 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 2 - Cynon Valley
• 2 - Thirsk and Malton
• 2 - Meriden
• 2 - Meon Valley
• 2 - Neath
• 2 - Torridge and West Devon
• 2 - Barnsley East
• 2 - Ludlow
• 2 - Sutton and Cheam
• 2 - South West Wiltshire
• 2 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 2 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 2 - St Austell and Newquay
• 2 - Stafford
• 2 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 2 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 2 - North Tyneside
• 2 - North Somerset
• 2 - Stockton North
• 2 - Stockton South
• 2 - North Norfolk
• 2 - North West Leicestershire
• 2 - Louth and Horncastle
• 2 - Loughborough
• 2 - Havant
• 2 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 2 - Beaconsfield
• 2 - Warrington North
• 2 - Hyndburn
• 2 - Hemsworth
• 2 - Hastings and Rye
• 2 - Waveney
• 2 - Hexham
• 2 - Henley
• 2 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 2 - Sheffield South East
• 2 - Wansbeck
• 2 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 2 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 2 - South West Norfolk
• 2 - Leigh
• 2 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 2 - Lewes
• 2 - South West Surrey
• 1 - Blaydon
• 1 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 1 - Amber Valley
• 1 - Vale of Clwyd
• 1 - Birkenhead
• 1 - Ynys Môn
• 1 - Rhondda
• 1 - Bishop Auckland
• 1 - North East Fife
• 1 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 1 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 1 - Llanelli
• 1 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 1 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 1 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Sherwood
• 1 - Bolton West
• 1 - Bolton North East
• 1 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 1 - Bosworth
• 1 - Bournemouth East
• 1 - Bexhill and Battle
• 1 - Bournemouth West
• 1 - Bradford East
• 1 - Rotherham
• 1 - Montgomeryshire
• 1 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 1 - Pontypridd
• 1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 1 - Wakefield
• 1 - Knowsley
• 1 - Jarrow
• 1 - Huddersfield
• 1 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 1 - Nuneaton
• 1 - High Peak
• 1 - Hazel Grove
• 1 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 1 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 1 - Pendle
• 1 - Totnes
• 1 - Southampton, Itchen
• 1 - The Wrekin
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 1 - Southend West
• 1 - North Dorset
• 1 - Stroud
• 1 - North Cornwall
• 1 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 1 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 1 - Newbury
• 1 - New Forest West
• 1 - St Helens North
• 1 - The Cotswolds
• 1 - Garston and Halewood
• 1 - Wirral West
• 1 - Witham
• 1 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 1 - Crawley
• 1 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 1 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 1 - Dundee East
• 1 - Cleethorpes
• 1 - South Staffordshire
• 1 - Redcar
• 1 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 1 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 1 - Burton
• 1 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 1 - Preston
• 1 - Doncaster Central
• 1 - South Norfolk
• 1 - Workington
• 1 - East Yorkshire
• 1 - Dudley South
• 1 - Dover
• 1 - Belfast West
• 1 - East Londonderry
• 1 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• 1 - Foyle
• 1 - Newry and Armagh
• 1 - North Down
• 1 - Glenrothes

Signatures by Region

• 902 - London
• 353 - South East
• 319 - East of England
• 256 - North West
• 236 - Scotland
• 199 - South West
• 197 - West Midlands
• 191 - East Midlands
• 133 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 105 - Wales
• 78 - North East
• 25 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 3,035 - United Kingdom
• 10 - United States
• 3 - New Zealand
• 1 - United Arab Emirates
• 1 - Sweden
• 1 - Peru
• 1 - Italy
• 1 - France
• 1 - Germany
• 1 - Australia
• 1 - South Africa