Submitted on Thursday 9th October 2025
Rejected on Tuesday 25th November 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Change voting to a rank based system to allow complete freedom when voting.
Replace the First-Past-the-Post system for general elections with a preferential voting system. This would allow voters to rank candidates by order of preference, ensuring their vote is used to elect a candidate they support, even if their first choice is eliminated.
First-Past-the-Post forces tactical voting and creates millions of "wasted" votes, leading to unrepresentative governments. A ranked system makes more votes count and allows people to vote for their true preference without fear of "spoiling" the result. This petition presents a clear and focused request for this reform, as previous similar petitions have often been ambiguously worded, which may have hindered public support for this vital issue.
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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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/727860
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