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Petition

Prevent the postponing of the local elections currently planned for May 2025.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Proposals to cancel local elections for the first time since World War II are anti-democratic and should be prevented. Proposals to review local democracy can still go ahead alongside these elections so they should not be cancelled. It would be a very dangerous precedent.
Parliament must deny current Labour proposals to cancel elections because that would be undemocratic and a sinister precedent.

Why it was rejected

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

You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:

Do not postpone the local elections
Do not postpone the local elections

Timeline

17 Dec 2024 Petition opened for signatures
25 Feb 2025 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 25 Feb 2025

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 27 Jul 2026.