Submitted on Thursday 18th September 2025
Rejected on Friday 3rd October 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop Labour from lowering the voting age to 16
I want to prevent the Labour party from allowing 16 and 17 year olds to have the right to vote.
Since the COVID pandemic, statistics show the GCSE outcomes across Maths and English language, for 16 year old, at grade 4/C (Standard Pass) is steadily declining with just under 1/3 of the country failing.
If 16 and 17 year olds were allowed to vote, they’d be ~2.9% of the electorate—enough to have swung the EU referendum. With these huge ramifications in mind we should strongly reconsider if 16 year and 17 year olds of this country grasp the basic fundamentals and political knowledge to vote.
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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 this petition, which calls for the same action: "Don't lower the voting age to 16" petition.parliament.uk/petitions/733604
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