Petition Automatic general election on change in the leadership of the governing party.

Given the substantial change in the character of a political party on changing its leadership, it seems undemocratic for the mandate from a general election to automatically transfer to a new leader with potentially completely different policies without consulting the electorate.

More details

The law should be changed to require a General Election if the leadership of the governing party changes.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

28 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 28 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 20 February 2019
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.