Legislate to require MPs who leave their party mid-tenure to face a by-election

Legislate to require MPs who leave their party mid-tenure to face a by-election — 15 signatures. Status: open.

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We believe if an MP defects from their party they were originally democratically elected in, they need to face a by election in their constituency to uphold the principles of democracy in the UK.

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For example, over the past Parliamentary terms, there have been several defections from one party to another or an MP leaving a party to create their own. We believe that the principles of democracy in the UK mean that the constituents voted for that party through the First-Past-the-Post electoral system, not the individual and if the individual of the party they voted for defects or leaves, it is no longer a democratically elected constituency.

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