Elections
This page highlights some of the current parliamentary material available on elections. This includes select committee reports, briefing papers on current legislation and other subjects produced by the parliamentary research services, and the latest Early Day Motions put down by MPs.
Standard Notes
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 19.07.2013 | Timetables for the UK Parliamentary General election |
| This Note sets out the timetable for a general election on 7 May 2015, as provided for under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 extended the length of the timetable to 25 working days. There is no date for the commencement of these provisions. | |
| 19.07.2013 | By-election timetables |
| This Note gives details of model timetables for by-elections. | |
| 18.07.2013 | Recall Elections |
| Recall is a term used to describe a process whereby the electorate can petition to trigger a vote on the suitability of an existing elected representative to continue in office. There is no recall procedure in the UK. The Government has stated that it will legislate to introduce a power of recall. This note explains the process of recall as commonly understood and briefly examines its usage in different countries. | |
| 16.07.2013 | The Budget and the annual Finance Bill |
| This note discusses the way that Parliament scrutinises the Government's proposals for taxation, set out in the annual Budget statement. It looks at how this procedure may be affected by the timing of a General Election, and gives some suggestions for further reading. | |
| 10.07.2013 | Electoral Statistics 2012 |
| This note provides data on electorates of parliamentary constituencies at December 2011. There were 46.3 million people registered to vote in UK parliamentary elections at 1 December 2012, an increase of 247,000 on December 2011. |
Research Papers
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 25.07.2013 | The Quebec referendums |
| This paper gives a brief outline of separatism in Quebec, showing that many of the arguments in Canada are already being echoed in the debate about Scotland's future relationship with the rest of the UK. | |
| 28.06.2013 | European Union (Referendum) Bill |
| This Private Member's Bill was introduced to the Commons on 19 June 2013 and is designed to require the holding of a referendum on the UK's continued membership of the European Union (EU) before the end of 2017. This Paper has been prepared as a guide in advance of the second reading on Friday 5 July. | |
| 15.05.2013 | Election Timetables |
| This Research Paper sets out the model timetables for Parliamentary general elections and by-elections. | |
| 01.03.2013 | The History of the Parliamentary Franchise |
| This paper gives a history of the Parliamentary franchise and shows the incremental stages which led to universal suffrage across the UK by drawing on several of the recognised sources which have dealt with the subject and by referring to the key legislation. | |
| 06.12.2012 | Pakistan in 2013 |
| 2013 will be another important year for Pakistan. Federal and provincial elections will be held during the first half of the year. If, as seems increasingly likely, the Pakistan People's Party-led Government sees out its full term in office and hands over to a civilian successor, it will be the first time in Pakistan's history that this has happened. But the political and economic situation remains highly volatile and unpredictable. |
Select Committee Reports
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 11.01.2012 | Constitution Select Committee (HL) twenty-third report on Voting at the close of poll. |
| Constitution Select Committee (HL) report [Lords] | |
| 22.11.2011 | Political party finance: ending the big donor culture. |
| Committee on Standards in Public Life report [Commons] | |
| 04.03.2011 | Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill. |
| Government response. Deputy Prime Minister report [Commons] | |
| 31.01.2011 | Work of the Committee in 2010. |
| Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission report [Commons] | |
| 11.10.2010 | Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill. |
| Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee report [Commons] |
Early Day Motions
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 12.07.2011 | HATIP DICLE AND FELLOW MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT |
| That this House notes the success of the 36 independent candidates of the Labour, Democracy and Freedom block supported by the Kurdish population in the Turkish general election on ... | |
| 23.03.2011 | BURMA AND THE EU |
| That this House notes that despite holding an election in November 2010, Burma has failed to meet the requests of the EU Common Position, last renewed on 26 April 2010, which called ... | |
| 01.03.2011 | IRISH GENERAL ELECTION RESULT |
| That this House notes the heavy defeat of the governing Fianna Fail party in the Irish General Election; further notes the loss of all the seats in the Dail of its junior partner, the ... | |
| 01.02.2011 | STOKE-ON-TRENT (ELECTORAL CHANGES) ORDER 2011 |
| That this House notes that the Stoke-on-Trent (Electoral Changes) Order 2011 seeks to implement the recommendations of the Electoral Commission's review of electoral arrangements for ... | |
| 24.01.2011 | SOUTH SUDAN REFERENDUM AND PEACE CAMPAIGNING BY EMMANUEL JAL |
| That this House notes the peaceful South Sudan independence referendum which took place between 9 January and 15 January 2011; welcomes the fact that the referendum's validity threshold ... |
