Submitted on Monday 21st July 2025
Rejected on Friday 1st August 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
A petition for a national referendum on the reduction of the voting age to 16
People younger than 18 years of age are consider by law to be children.
This petition calls for a referendum of the current UK electorate on whether the voting age should be reduced from 18 to 16 years of age.
In the UK a person below the age of 18 is not allowed to make decisions on consuming alcohol or cigarettes and are banned from proscribed establishments such as sexually explicit entertainment venues. People under 18 years of age are not considered adult in many sectors of the law, including employment and criminality.
The law implies that a person younger than 18 has not reached maturity and requires state protection and guidance. This is incompatible with the proposed age reduction.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
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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