Change the Sexual Offences Act so women can be charged with rape

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 478 signatures in total, with signatories from 294 constituencies. That makes it the 9,796th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 41% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 10% (low).

Signatures by Constituency

• 15 - Easington
• 9 - Gainsborough
• 8 - Darlington
• 6 - Great Grimsby
• 6 - Rochester and Strood
• 6 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 5 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 5 - Hartlepool
• 5 - Don Valley
• 4 - Sedgefield
• 4 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 4 - Portsmouth South
• 3 - East Hampshire
• 3 - Wallasey
• 3 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 3 - Ashford
• 3 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 3 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 3 - Leigh
• 3 - Bassetlaw
• 3 - Bridgend
• 3 - Reading West
• 3 - Orpington
• 3 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 3 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 3 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 3 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 3 - Skipton and Ripon
• 3 - Warrington North
• 3 - Tewkesbury
• 3 - Ogmore
• 3 - Cardiff West
• 2 - Dundee East
• 2 - East Devon
• 2 - Dudley South
• 2 - Milton Keynes North
• 2 - Oxford East
• 2 - Basildon and Billericay
• 2 - Pontypridd
• 2 - Wantage
• 2 - Grantham and Stamford
• 2 - Caerphilly
• 2 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 2 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 2 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 2 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 2 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 2 - Braintree
• 2 - Chesham and Amersham
• 2 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 2 - South Swindon
• 2 - Mid Norfolk
• 2 - Fareham
• 2 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 2 - Torbay
• 2 - Saffron Walden
• 2 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 2 - South Shields
• 2 - Hove
• 2 - Newbury
• 2 - Coventry North East
• 2 - Brent Central
• 2 - Winchester
• 2 - Windsor
• 2 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 2 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 2 - Livingston
• 2 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 2 - Harrow West
• 2 - St Helens North
• 2 - Stockton South
• 2 - Redcar
• 2 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 2 - Maidenhead
• 2 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 2 - Cardiff Central
• 2 - North Antrim
• 2 - Clwyd South
• 2 - Aberdeen South
• 2 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 2 - Gower
• 2 - Walthamstow
• 2 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 2 - Stirling
• 2 - Bedford
• 2 - Exeter
• 2 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 2 - Daventry
• 2 - Bolsover
• 2 - City of Durham
• 2 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 2 - Chesterfield
• 2 - Leeds East
• 2 - Barnsley East
• 2 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 2 - Torfaen
• 2 - Ribble Valley
• 2 - Wrexham
• 1 - South West Wiltshire
• 1 - Rhondda
• 1 - Warrington South
• 1 - Swansea West
• 1 - Hendon
• 1 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 1 - Doncaster North
• 1 - Basingstoke
• 1 - Arfon
• 1 - Rother Valley
• 1 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 1 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 1 - Harborough
• 1 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 1 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 1 - North East Somerset
• 1 - Derby South
• 1 - Loughborough
• 1 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 1 - West Worcestershire
• 1 - Tunbridge Wells
• 1 - Lincoln
• 1 - Neath
• 1 - Canterbury
• 1 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 1 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 1 - Salford and Eccles
• 1 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 1 - Bracknell
• 1 - Angus
• 1 - Stockton North
• 1 - Carlisle
• 1 - North East Hampshire
• 1 - Stretford and Urmston
• 1 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 1 - St Albans
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - Redditch
• 1 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Vale of Clwyd
• 1 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 1 - North Dorset
• 1 - Middlesbrough
• 1 - Rotherham
• 1 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 1 - Leeds North West
• 1 - Llanelli
• 1 - Shipley
• 1 - Monmouth
• 1 - Blyth Valley
• 1 - Clwyd West
• 1 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 1 - Mansfield
• 1 - Cynon Valley
• 1 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - Weston-super-Mare
• 1 - Norwich South
• 1 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 1 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 1 - Wimbledon
• 1 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 1 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 1 - Knowsley
• 1 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 1 - Horsham
• 1 - Boston and Skegness
• 1 - Solihull
• 1 - Wolverhampton North East
• 1 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 1 - Aberavon
• 1 - South Antrim
• 1 - Brigg and Goole
• 1 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 1 - Edinburgh South
• 1 - St Austell and Newquay
• 1 - Enfield North
• 1 - Woking
• 1 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 1 - Hexham
• 1 - Esher and Walton
• 1 - Corby
• 1 - East Dunbartonshire
• 1 - North West Leicestershire
• 1 - South Derbyshire
• 1 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 1 - Belfast West
• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
• 1 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 1 - Telford
• 1 - Aberdeen North
• 1 - Thornbury and Yate
• 1 - Milton Keynes South
• 1 - Batley and Spen
• 1 - Scunthorpe
• 1 - South West Hertfordshire
• 1 - Witham
• 1 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 1 - Colchester
• 1 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 1 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 1 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 1 - Ynys Môn
• 1 - North East Bedfordshire
• 1 - Buckingham
• 1 - Wirral West
• 1 - Edinburgh South West
• 1 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 1 - Newry and Armagh
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 1 - Doncaster Central
• 1 - West Dunbartonshire
• 1 - Epping Forest
• 1 - Eddisbury
• 1 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 1 - Jarrow
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 1 - Pudsey
• 1 - Bolton South East
• 1 - Cardiff North
• 1 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 1 - Blaenau Gwent
• 1 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 1 - Bath
• 1 - Witney
• 1 - Worcester
• 1 - Ilford South
• 1 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 1 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 1 - Rushcliffe
• 1 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 1 - Battersea
• 1 - Dover
• 1 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 1 - Chichester
• 1 - Erewash
• 1 - Hertsmere
• 1 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 1 - Barnsley Central
• 1 - South Ribble
• 1 - Southend West
• 1 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 1 - Colne Valley
• 1 - Derby North
• 1 - Mid Ulster
• 1 - Ceredigion
• 1 - South West Devon
• 1 - Harrow East
• 1 - Camborne and Redruth
• 1 - Copeland
• 1 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 1 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 1 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 1 - Mole Valley
• 1 - Epsom and Ewell
• 1 - South Cambridgeshire
• 1 - Belfast North
• 1 - South Dorset
• 1 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 1 - Wokingham
• 1 - Tatton
• 1 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 1 - Broxtowe
• 1 - West Lancashire
• 1 - Hertford and Stortford
• 1 - Chipping Barnet
• 1 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 1 - Wakefield
• 1 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 1 - Southampton, Test
• 1 - Somerton and Frome
• 1 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 1 - Portsmouth North
• 1 - Reading East
• 1 - Hayes and Harlington
• 1 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 1 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 1 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 1 - Glasgow North
• 1 - Ludlow
• 1 - Wellingborough
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - Waveney
• 1 - Torridge and West Devon
• 1 - Leeds North East
• 1 - Havant
• 1 - Kingswood
• 1 - Beverley and Holderness
• 1 - Bristol West
• 1 - North West Hampshire
• 1 - Gravesham
• 1 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 1 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 1 - Truro and Falmouth
• 1 - Wyre and Preston North
• 1 - Cleethorpes

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

Signatures by Region

• 75 - South East
• 54 - North East
• 52 - Wales
• 48 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 43 - London
• 36 - North West
• 34 - East Midlands
• 33 - South West
• 33 - Scotland
• 29 - East of England
• 21 - West Midlands
• 7 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 473 - United Kingdom
• 2 - United States
• 1 - Australia
• 1 - Italy
• 1 - New Zealand