Electoral Petition in UK Law
Legislation
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Recall of MPs Act 2015
... ... 3(2), 6, 12) ... How an MP becomes subject to a recall petition process ... 1: How an MP becomes subject to a recall petition process ... Act (returning officers: Scotland) .Northern IrelandThe Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland ... (2) References in this Act to a ... ...
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Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021
... ... ; local government finance; local government elections; electoral registration and electoral administration; and for connected purposes.[20 ... to encourage participation in decision-making;(iii) to make a petition scheme;(iv) to publish an electronic and postal address for each of its ... ...
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Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009
... ... and to make provision relating to local government boundary and electoral change; to make provision about local and regional development; to amend ... facility provided by it under this section for the making of a petition ... (3) In this Chapter, "principal local authority" means— ... (a) ... ...
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Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018
... ... section 18 may lodge with the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery a petition addressed to Her Majesty praying that She will be pleased to cause a ... as such;(b) a person whose name is entered on the church electoral roll of the parish concerned but who does not live in the parish is to be ... ...
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Books & Journal Articles
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Economic development and mass political participation in contemporary China: determinants of provincial petition (Xinfang) activism 1994–2002
Rapid economic development has increased mass political participation in market reform China. Many electoral authoritarian regimes with a good record of economic development have experienced the gr...... ... Many electoral authoritarian regimes with a good record of economic development have experienced the growing participation of elite/middle-class citizens. Under ... ...
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Book Review: Comparative: Elites and Identities in Post-Soviet Space
... ... of Cambridge) Party Strategies in Western Europe: Party Com- petition and Electoral Outcomes by Gemma Loomes. Abingdon: Routledge, 2011 ... ...
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Book Review: Comparative: Party Strategies in Western Europe: Party Competition and Electoral Outcomes
... ... Vsevolod Samokhvalov (University of Cambridge) Party Strategies in Western Europe: Party Com- petition and Electoral Outcomes by Gemma Loomes. Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 272pp., £80.00, ISBN 9780415601603 Gemma Loomes’ book analyses the impact of ... ...
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Information and political institutions
... ... question by investigating ho w par tisan competition in the electoral arena might induce politicians to implement civil service reforms, rather ... a new lens with which to ev aluate the impact of electoral com- petition and electoral institutions on voter welfare, and they suggest that ... ...
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Law Firm Commentaries
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Legal Challenges Against The 'Blanket Ban' On Prisoners' Vote Continue
... ... One such prisoner, who sought to challenge the decision of the Electoral Registration Officer to refuse to register him as a voter, by way of ... Lord Tyre dismissed the Petition for Judicial Review on the basis that a statutory remedy existed that ... ...
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EU Referendum Update - Leaflets And Lead Campaigners
... ... period marks the conclusion of a busy week during which the Electoral Commission designated In Campaign Ltd (Britain Stronger in Europe) and - ... In response to a petition calling for a debate on the decision to send the leaflet (which will be ... ...
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