Submitted by Christopher Deakin on Wednesday 4th December 2024
Published on Friday 24th January 2025
Current status: Open
Open until: Thursday 24th July 2025
Current Signatures: 21
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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2022 ~ Change ~ Committee ~ Commons ~ Constitution ~ democracy ~ Elections ~ Held ~ House of Commons ~ House of Lords ~ Law ~ Lords ~ Opportunity ~ Parliament ~ Represent ~ Voters ~ Years
Make automatic dissolution of Parliament every 4 years
Change the existing law (Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022) to require parliament to be dissolved automatically after four years, instead of five.
We think holding general elections approximately every 4 years, would give the public more opportunities to choose which candidate should represent them in Parliament.
In 2010, The House of Lords Constitution Committee said that to properly hold MPs in the House of Commons to account, more frequent general elections should be held.
We think it would be very simple to amend the existing law, which would allow voters to more regularly participate in democracy.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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