Change Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in law to Female Genital Cutting (FGC)

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 2,190 signatures in total, with signatories from 611 constituencies. That makes it the 4,720th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 90% (high) and a Local Issue Rating of 5% (low).

Signatures by Constituency

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

Signatures by Region

• 343 - London
• 266 - South East
• 247 - North West
• 196 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 194 - East of England
• 175 - Scotland
• 173 - West Midlands
• 163 - South West
• 137 - East Midlands
• 94 - Wales
• 87 - North East
• 38 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 2,136 - United Kingdom
• 13 - Canada
• 7 - United States
• 4 - Sweden
• 4 - Australia
• 2 - Ireland
• 2 - Norway
• 2 - Jersey
• 2 - British Antarctic Territory
• 2 - Guernsey
• 2 - Brazil
• 2 - Spain
• 2 - New Zealand
• 1 - Slovakia
• 1 - Portugal
• 1 - Poland
• 1 - Trinidad and Tobago
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - Lithuania
• 1 - Bermuda
• 1 - France
• 1 - Denmark
• 1 - Germany