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What is the timetable of general election 2019?
The timetable is 25 working-days and sets out key dates .
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Research Briefing
Political advertising
This House of Commons briefing paper provides an overview of the current regulation of political advertising in the UK.
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Research Briefing
General election timetable 2019
This briefing paper outlines the statutory timetable for the December 2019 parliamentary general election.
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Research Briefing
Brexit questions in national and EU courts
It has been predicted that Brexit issues will give rise to many legal actions in UK and other Member States' courts, and the Court of Justice of the EU. While there have not yet been a great many, several cases have been brought by UK citizens living in other EU Member States, while other cases have been interesting for their implications for the UK's future relations with the EU. This paper looks at issues that have been the subject of legal action in UK and EU courts.
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What does the Early Parliamentary General Election Bill do?
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.
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Voter ID: Securing the ballot or suppressing the vote?
Requiring voters to show ID aims to prevent ‘personation’.
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Voter ID: Key facts and figures
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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EU voters in England and Wales: Rights, regions and registers
There are more than 1.9 million EU citizens on the electoral registers in England and Wales.
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Research Briefing
Overseas Electors Bill 2017-19
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.
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Research Briefing
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill 2017-19
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.
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Research Briefing
A no-deal Brexit: the Johnson Government
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.
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General election results from 1918 to 2019: All data now in one place
The Commons Library has now made general election results from 1918 to 2017 available to view in one place.
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UK general elections since 1918: Top 5 facts in stats
Where were the smallest electorates, the highest turnouts or largest majorities?
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Research Briefing
Local Elections 2019
This Commons Library briefing analyses the results of local elections held in England and Northern Ireland on 2 May 2019.
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When might an early general election take place?
This Insight gives two illustrative examples of how the timetable might operate for an early general election.
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