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Petition · past parliament

Make Government and Politics a compulsory lesson

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The percentage of citizens in the UK that vote every five years repeatedly falls every general election and I believe that we could defeat this participation crisis by making politics a compulsory lesson. In 2015 elections only 66.1% of the population voted and we could increase this.
Percentage of the population who voted in
1997: 71.4%
2015: 66.1%
We could improve these statistics by increasing political participation.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Make the study of the British Political System a compulsory subject in Schools.

Timeline

9 Nov 2015 Petition opened for signatures
16 Nov 2015 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 16 Nov 2015

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.