Make short selling shares illegal in the UK

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 1,734 signatures in total, with signatories from 578 constituencies. That makes it the 5,371st most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 88% (average) and a Local Issue Rating of 1% (very low).

Signatures by Constituency

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

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

Signatures by Region

• 286 - South East
• 185 - North West
• 175 - South West
• 172 - East of England
• 160 - London
• 155 - West Midlands
• 142 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 134 - Scotland
• 130 - East Midlands
• 84 - Wales
• 50 - North East
• 25 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 1,712 - United Kingdom
• 3 - France
• 2 - Thailand
• 2 - Ireland
• 2 - United Arab Emirates
• 2 - Germany
• 2 - Switzerland
• 2 - Belgium
• 2 - Australia
• 1 - Spain
• 1 - Guernsey
• 1 - Greece
• 1 - Saudi Arabia
• 1 - South Africa