Submitted on Thursday 17th July 2025
Rejected on Friday 1st August 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Any legislation to lower the UK voting age must be put to a general referendum.
Pass legislation within the current parliamentary term, and before any legislation to the contrary is passed, that will ensure that any proposal to reduce the UK voting age below 18 years is put to a yes/no referendum.
Because it seems ridiculous that persons under the age of 18 are currently designated as children and as such are currently unable to:- stand for election, buy cigarettes, vapes or alcohol , fight in the armed forces or drive any vehicle. Yet current government proposals are that those same persons should be able to participate in deciding the government, and thus it's manifesto commitments.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:
We call for a referendum before extending voting rights to 16 & 17-year-olds: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/733679
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