Reducing The Voting Age To 16 Years (EDM2048)

Reducing The Voting Age To 16 Years

EDM number 2048 in 2010-12, proposed by Stephen Williams on 07/07/2011.
Categorised under the topic of Electoral franchise.

That this House believes that the voting age for elections to the House of Commons and any elected Second Chamber should be reduced to 16 years, following the example in Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Austria, Brazil and state level elections in Germany; and further believes that young people already have significant rights and responsibilities at 16 and 17 years and should be able to have their say in choosing the politicians who make decisions about their lives.

This motion has been signed by a total of 49 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Stephen Williams	07/07/2011	Bristol West	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Natascha Engel	07/07/2011	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Seconded
Jonathan Edwards	07/07/2011	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	Plaid Cymru	Seconded
Eilidh Whiteford	07/07/2011	Banff and Buchan	Scottish National Party	Seconded
Caroline Lucas	07/07/2011	Brighton, Pavilion	Green	Seconded
Mary Glindon	11/07/2011	North Tyneside	Labour	Seconded
John McDonnell	11/07/2011	Hayes and Harlington	Labour	Signed
Mike Hancock	11/07/2011	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Flynn	12/07/2011	Newport West	Labour	Signed
Susan Elan Jones	12/07/2011	Clwyd South	Labour	Signed
Mark Williams	12/07/2011	Ceredigion	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Hywel Williams	12/07/2011	Arfon	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Andrew George	12/07/2011	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Durkan	12/07/2011	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Jim Dobbin	12/07/2011	Heywood and Middleton	Labour	Signed
Alan Meale	12/07/2011	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	12/07/2011	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Adrian Sanders	12/07/2011	Torbay	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Naomi Long	13/07/2011	Belfast East	Alliance	Signed
Martin Caton	13/07/2011	Gower	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	13/07/2011	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Tom Blenkinsop	13/07/2011	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	Labour	Signed
John Mann	14/07/2011	Bassetlaw	Labour	Signed
John Leech	14/07/2011	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Heyes	18/07/2011	Ashton-under-Lyne	Labour	Signed
Nicholas Dakin	18/07/2011	Scunthorpe	Labour	Signed
Peter Bottomley	18/07/2011	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
Margaret Ritchie	20/07/2011	South Down	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Lindsay Roy	11/08/2011	Glenrothes	Labour	Signed
Paul Blomfield	11/08/2011	Sheffield Central	Labour	Signed
Roger Godsiff	05/09/2011	Birmingham, Hall Green	Labour	Signed
Rosie Cooper	05/09/2011	West Lancashire	Labour	Signed
Yvonne Fovargue	05/09/2011	Makerfield	Labour	Signed
Dan Jarvis	05/09/2011	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Graeme Morrice	07/09/2011	Livingston	Labour	Signed
Kate Green	08/09/2011	Stretford and Urmston	Labour	Signed
Don Foster	13/09/2011	Bath	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lisa Nandy	13/09/2011	Wigan	Labour	Signed
Bob Russell	13/09/2011	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Joan Ruddock	14/09/2011	Lewisham, Deptford	Labour	Signed
Stewart Hosie	14/09/2011	Dundee East	Scottish National Party	Signed
Sheila Gilmore	14/09/2011	Edinburgh East	Labour	Signed
Richard Burden	15/09/2011	Birmingham, Northfield	Labour	Signed
Tim Farron	10/10/2011	Westmorland and Lonsdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ian Swales	10/10/2011	Redcar	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Heidi Alexander	11/10/2011	Lewisham East	Labour	Signed
Jo Swinson	12/10/2011	East Dunbartonshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Keen	17/10/2011	Feltham and Heston	Labour	Signed
Pete Wishart	17/10/2011	Perth and North Perthshire	Scottish National Party	Signed

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