Elise Uberoi

Under current legislation, a person must be 18 or over to vote in elections to the UK Parliament. This Note gives details of calls for a change in the law to reduce the voting age to 16 in recent years.

This Insight explores how the temporary hybrid model for proceedings affected the participation of women MPs.

Key statistics and current trends for the UK dairy industry, including farm-gate prices, UK herd size, production, international trade and domestic consumption.

This dataset presents UK general election results by constituency from 1918 onwards. It draws on several sources, described below, which may contain errors. For each constituency, the dataset includes the number of votes and vote share for different political parties, as well as the electorate and turnout. Turnout was calculated as valid votes divided by the electorate.

This briefing includes latest figures on the proportion of women in Parliament and elected bodies across the UK and throughout the world.

When the UK leaves the EU, UK MEPs will vacate their seats. Some of these seats will be taken up by new MEPs from the remaining 27 EU Member States. This Insight explains the background and impact of those changes to the European Parliament.

This Commons Library Briefing Paper analyses the results of the 2019 General Election. It provides maps, charts and tables showing winners, votes, vote shares and turnout by party, region and constituency.

General election results are counted and declared at constituency level, while local and European Parliament election results are counted and declared at local council area level.

Both Conservative and Labour Parties have promised to repeal the The Fixed-term Parliaments Act, with a review of the Act needing to be arranged in 2020

The new Parliament could see the biggest changes to farm policy for decades

Results have been declared in all 650 constituencies.

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.

This Commons Library Briefing Paper provides information about which groups in the UK are considered to be politically disengaged, and why. This paper will use the term ‘political disengagement’ to capture certain behaviours and attitudes towards the political system. It uses a range of different sources, which are referenced in the PDF.