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Representation of the People Bill

This bill lowers the voting age to 16, improves voter registration, strengthens rules on party donations, enhances electoral security, and protects candidates from harassment.

Make provision extending the right to vote to 16 and 17 year olds; to make provision about the registration of voters; to make provision about the administration and conduct of elections, referendums and recall petitions; to make provision about election agents’ addresses; to make provision about political expenditure and political donations; to make provision about information to be included in electronic campaigning material; to make provision about offences and civil sanctions in connection with elections, referendums and recall petitions and with donations and expenditure for political purposes; to repeal provision about the designation of a strategy and policy statement for the Electoral Commission; to make provision about the disclosure of information by the Electoral Commission; to make provision about the disqualification of offenders for holding elective offices, and their sentencing, where offences are aggravated by hostility towards persons involved in elections, referendums or recall petitions or holders of such offices; and for connected purposes.

Status: In Progress

Current House: Lords

Stage: 2nd reading

Sponsored by: Steve Reed, Baroness Taylor of Stevenage

Introduced: 2026-02-12