Rejected petition Allow 16-17 year olds to vote in elections

Lower the voting age to 16 years old. Many argue that people under 16 are not educated enough politically to make informed decisions. However, apparently we are educated enough to pay taxes? To get married? To start families? To give medical consent? Let us have a say on who runs our country.

More details

There are many 16 year olds who want to be able to vote, myself included. There are many 18+ year olds who are not politically educated but are able to vote, and yet there are many 16-17 year olds who ARE politically educated, such as myself, but cannot vote. We want to be able to have a say on who runs our country, and not have our views disregarded simply because we're not deemed old enough to have informed opinions.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

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.

I'm sorry - we cannot accept duplicate petitions. We think this petition is similar to yours:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104603

You might like to sign this petition instead. It is more likely to get more signatures that way.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 22 September 2015
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.