Around 2.6m people have signed in total
More than 100,000 people from Greater Manchester constituencies have signed the petition on Parliament's website calling for the holding of another General Election, the Manchester Evening News can reveal.
The 27 constituencies covering the Greater Manchester area have, of course, differing sizes and electorates, but all but two are now held by Labour Party MPs after the Tories were wiped from the political map here. The Liberal Democrats hold Cheadle and Hazel Grove. In the constituency of the Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, Ashton-under-Lyne, almost 4,000 people have signed the petition.
The figures show the total number of signatories in the Greater Manchester constituencies to be 108,240. Around 2.6 million people have signed a parliamentary petition calling for a new general election nationally - at the time of writing. Asked about the petition on ITV's This Morning, the Prime Minister ruled out calls for another election by saying that it is 'not how our system works'. Sir Keir said: "There will be plenty of people who didn't want us in the first place...my focus is on the decisions that I have to make every day."
According to the official figures though, more than 99 per cent of the signatures on the petition were made in the UK. Almost 20,000 people gave an overseas location, with signatures coming in from almost every country in the world, including from places such as China, the USA, Russia and even North Korea.
The petition reads: "I would like there to be another general election. I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead-up to the last election." It is open for signatures until May, 2025.
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