Downing street petitions – how many people vote in number 10 e-petitions?
February 4, 2010
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Visit petitions.number10.gov.uk and you can create an electronic petition, calling on the government to take some action. Then you get a response, "usually provided there are 500 signatures or more".
So how many people sign these petitions? Not that many. Of the 27,150 closed petitions (ie those that have run their time and haven't been rejected for being duplicates or offensive) the figures are as follows:
- 1 to 10 signatures: 9,337
- 11 to 100: 12,706
- 101 to 1,000: 4,012
- 1,001 to 10,000: 980
- 10,001 to 100,001: 108
- 100,001+: 7
Here it is in (approximate) graph form:
Numbers of votes
Of the 27,150, 1,920 (7%) have reached the 500 signature cut off. You can see currently open petitions here.
Interesting analysis. The ditch IE6 petition is gaining some good traction.
Thank Goodness
Spooky - it was that petition that led me to work out how many people actually signed these things!
Hey Malcolm, really interesting post. It would be even more useful to find out (don't know if you can) how many of those petitions that were over the 500 were actually considered, who considered them and what the process was.
If there's to be some transparency in government then we need to know how it works and whether the petitions we sign - or in my case, create - actually do anything worthwhile.
The gurkhas one obviously did and there are others there that are much more important than the one for IE6 - really important issues. Will be following...