Raise voting age to 18 years old
Raise the voting age from 16 back to 18
Signatures
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Government response threshold (10,000) · 8/10,000
Debate threshold (100,000) · 8/100,000
- 05 DEC 2025Petition rejectedduplicate
You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action: Don't lower the voting age to 16 https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/733604
- 06 NOV 2025Petition created
Background
In my opinion (as a young person myself) 16 year olds are not mature enough to make decisions on this country’s future. The lowering of the voting age was clearly a desperate attempt by Labour to try and gain a few cheap votes in the next election and I do not believe that it was properly thought through.