Rejected petition OUR VOTE, OUR RIGHT: Democracy Delayed is Democracy Denied

We call on the government to make postponement of elections impossible except in a genuine national emergency, and that any such postponement must be approved by Parliament, ensuring no Prime Minister or minister can delay elections on their own.

More details

In history, leaders who feared facing voters delayed, cancelled, or hollowed‑out elections to stay in power. Castro, Hitler, and Stalin all did this. Recent UK actions allow councils to delay votes for reorganisation, undermining people’s right to vote. Elections must happen on schedule; reorganisation can wait for the next cycle. The right to vote must come first — never postponed for convenience.

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.

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

Remove power to cancel local government elections
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/747234

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

Date submitted 15 January 2026
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.