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Voting By Secret Ballot

EDM number 1015 in 2004-05, proposed by Gordon Prentice on 04/04/2005.

That this House believes that on-demand postal voting and the introduction of new ways of voting may fatally undermine public confidence in the integrity of the ballot; and urges the next Government to bring forward legislation with urgency to re-assert the primacy of the secret ballot, acknowledging that it is the cornerstone of the United Kingdom's democracy.

This motion has been signed by a total of 28 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Gordon Prentice04/04/2005PendleLabourProposed
Bob Russell04/04/2005ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Nicholas Winterton05/04/2005MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Rudi Vis05/04/2005Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell05/04/2005Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Graham Stringer05/04/2005Manchester, BlackleyLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley05/04/2005Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Roy Beggs05/04/2005East AntrimUUPSigned
Jane Griffiths05/04/2005Reading EastLabourSigned
Edward Garnier05/04/2005HarboroughConservativeSigned
Ann Cryer05/04/2005KeighleyLabourSigned
Alice Mahon05/04/2005HalifaxLabourSigned
Lady Hermon05/04/2005North DownUUPSigned
Martin Smyth05/04/2005Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Harry Barnes05/04/2005North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Ann Winterton06/04/2005CongletonConservativeSigned
Paul Tyler06/04/2005North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Simon Thomas06/04/2005CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
Mike Hancock06/04/2005Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
David Hamilton06/04/2005MidlothianLabourSigned
Andrew George06/04/2005St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Flynn06/04/2005Newport WestLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn06/04/2005Islington NorthLabourSigned
David Burnside06/04/2005South AntrimUUPSigned
Edward O'Hara06/04/2005Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
John McDonnell06/04/2005Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Lynne Jones06/04/2005Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Alan Simpson06/04/2005Nottingham SouthLabourSigned

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