A Bill to make provision for an open list system for elections to the European Parliament.
House of Commons
Sir Christopher ChopeConservative
12 May 2016
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This private member’s bill would introduce an open list system for European Parliament elections, allowing voters to express preferences for individual candidates within party lists rather than just voting for a party. It was introduced in the House of Commons by Sir Christopher Chope (Conservative) and had its second reading in 2016. The bill concerns how European Parliament elections would be run, should such elections take place under its provisions.
As provided, the bill is at the second reading stage in the House of Commons, with no further progress documented here.
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4 Mar 2016
This Bill was withdrawn following the Second Reading debate on 4 March 2016 and will make no further progress.
This Bill was presented to Parliament on 6 July 2015. This is known as the first reading and there was no debate on the Bill at this stage.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
