Rejected petition Allow the Clacton Constituency voters a chance to change their MP under Recall

Under MP Recall proposals (2014) it was agreed that MPs should be recalled if 10% of their electorate voted that their MP should stand down. Many of Clacton's electorate voted for the party, not the man and so should be given the opportunity to select a new MP following his resignation from UKIP.

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Electorate: 67,447 (December 2010). Thus if 7000 of Clacton's voters support this petition, Douglas Carswell, as somebody who has repeatedly claimed that MPs should honourably stand down and seek re-election if they leave their party but now appears to be hiding behind the fact that he is not 'crossing the floor', should respect their wishes, stand down and allow a by-election to take place.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

If you'd like the law on the recall of MPs to be changed, you may wish to sign this petition instead:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/181970

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

Date submitted 27 March 2017
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