Petitions
What is your constituency petitioning for?
Anyone can petition Parliament online, and every signature is counted against the signer's constituency. This page takes the biggest open petitions and those waiting for a debate, and shows how your constituency signs each one: how many signatures, where that places it among the 650, and whether it signs more or less than the typical seat. Alongside each is where the petition has got to: a Government response, a debate in Westminster Hall, or still gathering names.
- Signatures by constituency
- Rank among the 650
- Responses & debates
- Closing dates
How this works
Petitions to the House of Commons run for six months on petition.parliament.uk. At 10,000 signatures the Government must respond; at 100,000 the Petitions Committee considers it for a debate. Every signer gives a postcode, and each petition publishes its signatures by constituency, so this page reads the forty or so biggest open petitions and those awaiting a debate, finds your constituency in each, and ranks it against the other 649. The typical constituency is the UK total divided by 650; a seat signs some petitions two or three times as heavily as that and others hardly at all, which says something about what its residents care about. Smaller petitions are not read, and the counts are as the site published them within the last hour.
Sources
- UK Parliament petitions site (petition.parliament.uk), JSON for each petition and listing. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Postcodes and constituencies: postcodes.io / ONS Postcode Directory (OGL v3).