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The Government has today introduced a short Bill. This is an attempt to facilitate an early general election on 12 December 2019. This Insight explains why the Bill is necessary and what it will do.
Research Briefing
The UK Government planned to require voters to show ID in polling stations to prevent ‘personation’.
Research Briefing
The Government states that requiring voters to show some form of ID will reduce the risk of voter fraud and improve the integrity of the electoral process.
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Requiring voters to show ID aims to prevent ‘personation’.
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The Government states that requiring voters to show some form of ID will reduce the risk of voter fraud and improve the integrity of the electoral process.
Research Briefing
There are more than 1.9 million EU citizens on the electoral registers in England and Wales.
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There are more than 1.9 million EU citizens on the electoral registers in England and Wales.
Research Briefing
The Overseas Electors Bill 2017-19 was a Private Member’s Bill to extend the basis on which British citizens outside the UK qualify to participate in Parliamentary elections. It will remove the '15-year rule' which prevents British citizens living overseas from registering to vote if they have lived abroad for more than 15 years.
Research Briefing
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill 2017-19 is a Private Member's Bill that sought to change the Rules for Redistribution of Parliamentary constituencies. This briefing summarises the main changes that the Bill would make if passed.
Research Briefing
Commons Briefing Paper 8397, What if there's no Brexit deal? considered among other things how the UK and the EU arrived at a situation in which a no-deal Brexit might happen. This paper considers the position since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July.
Research Briefing
The Commons Library has now made general election results from 1918 to 2017 available to view in one place.
Research Briefing
Where were the smallest electorates, the highest turnouts or largest majorities?
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The Commons Library has now made general election results from 1918 to 2017 available to view in one place.
Insight
Where were the smallest electorates, the highest turnouts or largest majorities?
Research Briefing
This Commons Library briefing analyses the results of local elections held in England and Northern Ireland on 2 May 2019.
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