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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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There are more than 1.9 million EU citizens on the electoral registers in England and Wales.
Research Briefing
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.
Research Briefing
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.
Research Briefing
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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The Commons Library has now made general election results from 1918 to 2017 available to view in one place.
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Where were the smallest electorates, the highest turnouts or largest majorities?
Research Briefing
This Commons Library briefing analyses the results of local elections held in England and Northern Ireland on 2 May 2019.
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This Insight gives two illustrative examples of how the timetable might operate for an early general election.
Research Briefing
This briefing looks in detail at the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated between the EU and UK and finalised on 14 November 2018. It was endorsed by EU Member State leaders at a special European Council summit on 25 November and the UK Prime Minister promoted it in the UK Parliament and around the country. The Agreement was debated at length in Parliament on several occasions and has been voted on three times. But the House of Commons has not endorsed it. A second extension of Article 50 took exit day to 31 October 2019, but once again the UK is faced with the possibility of leaving the EU without an agreement if this agreement or another one is not ratified by the UK and the EU.
Research Briefing
A Bill briefing on the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill 2017-19
Research Briefing
This briefing paper analyses the results of the 2019 European Parliament elections, focussing on both the UK and EU-wide results. It also analyses the repercussions for the EU, in terms of the balance of forces within the new Parliament and its impact on the forthcoming appointment process for the top jobs in the EU, including the European Commission Presidency.
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Looks at which parties have held UK seats in the European Parliament over the last 40 years, and the gender and diversity of those elected
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European Parliament elections take place in the UK on Thursday 23 May. Here we explain the different electoral systems which will be used to determine the outcome of the elections.
Debate Pack
A Westminster Hall debate on Intimidation in public life, initiated by Simon Hart MP, has been scheduled for Tuesday 21 May 2019 at 2.30pm.
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Abuse and intimidation of elected representatives is increasing. What steps that are being taken to tackle the problem?
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