Extend the legal definition of rape

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 841 signatures in total, with signatories from 422 constituencies. That makes it the 7,610th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 64% (average) and a Local Issue Rating of 2% (low).

Signatures by Constituency

• 8 - Bristol East
• 6 - Leeds North East
• 6 - Wealden
• 6 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 6 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 6 - Norwich South
• 5 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 5 - Rochford and Southend East
• 5 - Worcester
• 5 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 4 - Portsmouth North
• 4 - Shipley
• 4 - North Tyneside
• 4 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 4 - Glasgow Central
• 4 - Pontypridd
• 4 - Tatton
• 4 - Eastleigh
• 4 - Torridge and West Devon
• 4 - East Ham
• 4 - Bristol West
• 4 - Bury St Edmunds
• 4 - Colne Valley
• 4 - Braintree
• 4 - Arundel and South Downs
• 4 - Richmond Park
• 4 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 4 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 4 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 4 - Vauxhall
• 4 - Edinburgh East
• 4 - Peterborough
• 3 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 3 - Coventry North West
• 3 - Clwyd West
• 3 - Bournemouth West
• 3 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 3 - Wallasey
• 3 - Oxford East
• 3 - Congleton
• 3 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 3 - Basildon and Billericay
• 3 - Sheffield Central
• 3 - Epping Forest
• 3 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 3 - Camborne and Redruth
• 3 - Rochester and Strood
• 3 - Neath
• 3 - St Austell and Newquay
• 3 - Crawley
• 3 - Suffolk Coastal
• 3 - Leigh
• 3 - Clacton
• 3 - Reading West
• 3 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 3 - Enfield North
• 3 - Milton Keynes South
• 3 - Eddisbury
• 3 - Loughborough
• 3 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 3 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 3 - Broxtowe
• 3 - Sevenoaks
• 3 - Epsom and Ewell
• 3 - Basingstoke
• 3 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 3 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 3 - Edinburgh South West
• 3 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 3 - Preston
• 3 - Banbury
• 3 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 3 - Doncaster Central
• 3 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 3 - Aylesbury
• 3 - South West Hertfordshire
• 3 - Walsall South
• 3 - Exeter
• 3 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 3 - Dundee West
• 3 - Edinburgh South
• 3 - South Derbyshire
• 3 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 3 - Hastings and Rye
• 3 - Luton North
• 3 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 3 - Manchester, Withington
• 3 - Solihull
• 3 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 3 - West Dorset
• 3 - Rochdale
• 3 - Manchester Central
• 3 - Edinburgh West
• 3 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 3 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 3 - Milton Keynes North
• 2 - Orpington
• 2 - Worthing West
• 2 - Canterbury
• 2 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 2 - Alyn and Deeside
• 2 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 2 - South East Cornwall
• 2 - North West Hampshire
• 2 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 2 - Rother Valley
• 2 - Enfield, Southgate
• 2 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 2 - Feltham and Heston
• 2 - Wrexham
• 2 - Burton
• 2 - The Wrekin
• 2 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 2 - Cheltenham
• 2 - Bedford
• 2 - Leeds East
• 2 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 2 - Buckingham
• 2 - Newbury
• 2 - Barnsley Central
• 2 - Salford and Eccles
• 2 - Warrington North
• 2 - Norwich North
• 2 - Hemel Hempstead
• 2 - Mid Sussex
• 2 - Bristol South
• 2 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 2 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 2 - Wokingham
• 2 - Gordon
• 2 - West Ham
• 2 - Ceredigion
• 2 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 2 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 2 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 2 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 2 - North East Fife
• 2 - South Northamptonshire
• 2 - Horsham
• 2 - Huntingdon
• 2 - Reading East
• 2 - City of Durham
• 2 - Ashford
• 2 - Ashfield
• 2 - North Down
• 2 - Wantage
• 2 - Newport West
• 2 - Cardiff North
• 2 - Belfast North
• 2 - Esher and Walton
• 2 - York Central
• 2 - Falkirk
• 2 - Glasgow South
• 2 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 2 - Bracknell
• 2 - Colchester
• 2 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 2 - Wycombe
• 2 - Sutton Coldfield
• 2 - Macclesfield
• 2 - Dundee East
• 2 - St Helens North
• 2 - West Lancashire
• 2 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 2 - Tottenham
• 2 - Selby and Ainsty
• 2 - Bootle
• 2 - Moray
• 2 - Westminster North
• 2 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 2 - Leicester West
• 2 - Mitcham and Morden
• 2 - Cleethorpes
• 2 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 2 - Twickenham
• 2 - Walsall North
• 2 - Gainsborough
• 2 - Penrith and The Border
• 2 - Bradford East
• 2 - Wells
• 2 - Glenrothes
• 2 - Chipping Barnet
• 2 - Totnes
• 2 - Tooting
• 2 - St Albans
• 2 - Bristol North West
• 2 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 2 - Mole Valley
• 2 - Croydon South
• 2 - Hertsmere
• 2 - Gedling
• 2 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 2 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 2 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 2 - Dudley North
• 2 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 2 - Cardiff Central
• 2 - Woking
• 2 - Chippenham
• 2 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 2 - Chorley
• 2 - Hammersmith
• 2 - Islington North
• 2 - Knowsley
• 2 - Stourbridge
• 2 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 2 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 2 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 2 - Guildford
• 2 - Witham
• 2 - Salisbury
• 2 - South West Wiltshire
• 2 - Denton and Reddish
• 2 - Aberdeen North
• 2 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 2 - Nottingham South
• 2 - North East Somerset
• 2 - Brigg and Goole
• 2 - Harborough
• 2 - Mid Norfolk
• 2 - East Surrey
• 2 - Stroud
• 2 - North Durham
• 2 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 2 - Isle of Wight
• 2 - North East Hertfordshire
• 1 - Bolton South East
• 1 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 1 - Angus
• 1 - North Herefordshire
• 1 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 1 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 1 - Derbyshire Dales
• 1 - Bradford West
• 1 - Cannock Chase
• 1 - Chesterfield
• 1 - Southampton, Test
• 1 - North East Bedfordshire
• 1 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 1 - Torbay
• 1 - Sutton and Cheam
• 1 - Halton
• 1 - Wirral West
• 1 - Telford
• 1 - Stevenage
• 1 - Surrey Heath
• 1 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 1 - Slough
• 1 - Bath
• 1 - Winchester
• 1 - Torfaen
• 1 - Hertford and Stortford
• 1 - Arfon
• 1 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 1 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 1 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• 1 - Chichester
• 1 - West Dunbartonshire
• 1 - Amber Valley
• 1 - Hazel Grove
• 1 - Bournemouth East
• 1 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 1 - Nottingham East
• 1 - Vale of Clwyd
• 1 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 1 - Bradford South
• 1 - Thurrock
• 1 - Weston-super-Mare
• 1 - Bolton West
• 1 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 1 - Sherwood
• 1 - East Lothian
• 1 - Northampton North
• 1 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 1 - High Peak
• 1 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 1 - North Norfolk
• 1 - North Devon
• 1 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 1 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 1 - Fareham
• 1 - Warrington South
• 1 - Hove
• 1 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 1 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 1 - Boston and Skegness
• 1 - Lewes
• 1 - South West Surrey
• 1 - South Leicestershire
• 1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 1 - Oldham West and Royton
• 1 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 1 - South Thanet
• 1 - Hartlepool
• 1 - Bexhill and Battle
• 1 - New Forest West
• 1 - Manchester, Gorton
• 1 - Daventry
• 1 - Croydon Central
• 1 - Doncaster North
• 1 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 1 - Leicester East
• 1 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 1 - Bolsover
• 1 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 1 - Hayes and Harlington
• 1 - Taunton Deane
• 1 - Stafford
• 1 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 1 - Sefton Central
• 1 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 1 - Newton Abbot
• 1 - Windsor
• 1 - Tewkesbury
• 1 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 1 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 1 - Wolverhampton South East
• 1 - Bolton North East
• 1 - Dudley South
• 1 - Poole
• 1 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 1 - Caerphilly
• 1 - East Hampshire
• 1 - Somerton and Frome
• 1 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 1 - South Cambridgeshire
• 1 - Mid Ulster
• 1 - Corby
• 1 - Eltham
• 1 - East Devon
• 1 - Glasgow North East
• 1 - North West Leicestershire
• 1 - Hendon
• 1 - Henley
• 1 - Morley and Outwood
• 1 - North Cornwall
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 1 - Louth and Horncastle
• 1 - Glasgow North West
• 1 - Devizes
• 1 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 1 - Chesham and Amersham
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 1 - New Forest East
• 1 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 1 - Argyll and Bute
• 1 - South Staffordshire
• 1 - Romford
• 1 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 1 - Lagan Valley
• 1 - Ludlow
• 1 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 1 - Skipton and Ripon
• 1 - Beaconsfield
• 1 - Portsmouth South
• 1 - Barrow and Furness
• 1 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 1 - Redcar
• 1 - Watford
• 1 - Eastbourne
• 1 - Warwick and Leamington
• 1 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 1 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 1 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 1 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 1 - Havant
• 1 - Mansfield
• 1 - Stretford and Urmston
• 1 - South Suffolk
• 1 - St Ives
• 1 - Gravesham
• 1 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 1 - Brent North
• 1 - Castle Point
• 1 - Middlesbrough
• 1 - Brent Central
• 1 - Pendle
• 1 - Strangford
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 1 - North West Durham
• 1 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 1 - Barking
• 1 - East Dunbartonshire
• 1 - Garston and Halewood
• 1 - Stirling
• 1 - The Cotswolds
• 1 - Wolverhampton South West
• 1 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 1 - Yeovil
• 1 - Meriden
• 1 - Wimbledon
• 1 - Huddersfield
• 1 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 1 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 1 - Easington
• 1 - Rugby
• 1 - Bassetlaw
• 1 - Belfast South
• 1 - Blackley and Broughton
• 1 - Livingston
• 1 - Tamworth
• 1 - Truro and Falmouth
• 1 - West Bromwich East
• 1 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 1 - Monmouth
• 1 - Great Yarmouth
• 1 - Wigan
• 1 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 1 - Blackpool South
• 1 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 1 - Foyle
• 1 - Blaenau Gwent
• 1 - Chelmsford
• 1 - South Swindon
• 1 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 1 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 1 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 1 - Cambridge

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

Signatures by Region

• 128 - South East
• 97 - East of England
• 96 - London
• 87 - North West
• 80 - Scotland
• 77 - South West
• 61 - West Midlands
• 56 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 42 - Wales
• 41 - East Midlands
• 23 - North East
• 10 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 819 - United Kingdom
• 4 - France
• 3 - Italy
• 2 - Austria
• 2 - Australia
• 2 - Canada
• 2 - United States
• 2 - Ireland
• 1 - Saudi Arabia
• 1 - New Zealand
• 1 - Gibraltar
• 1 - Colombia
• 1 - South Africa