Since Steerpike first reported on the petition for another general election, another two million signatures have been added. (Not that Mr S is taking the credit.)
While the petition is most popular in Tory and Reform-held seats – especially in Essex, where almost one in ten of the electorate have signed in some constituencies – MPs in Labour marginals should be taking note too. In Tamworth, Ribble Valley, Sittingbourne and Sheppey, Derbyshire Dales and North West Leicestershire, Labour MPs with majorities of fewer than 1,500 votes have at least 5,500 constituents who have signed the petition.
Derbyshire Dales’s new boy John Whitby perhaps has the most to fear as his majority of just 350 votes over the Conservatives is dwarfed by the 5,800 who want to see an election. It’s London, city centres and the Scottish isles where interest in another election is lowest.
You can see the number of signatures from in your constituency in the table and map below:
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