Motion or amendment: Lowering the Voting Age for 16 and 17 Year Olds
Motion or amendment by Miss Áine Murphy on .
- MLA
- Miss Áine Murphy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 10 September 2024
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Lowering the Voting Age for 16 and 17 Year Olds
- Assembly identifier
- Document 409451
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Lowering the Voting Age for 16 and 17 Year Olds
That this Assembly notes the motion agreed by the Assembly, in November 2012, calling on the British Government to introduce legislation to change the voting age to 16; regrets that previous British Governments failed to introduce such legislation; further notes the manifesto commitment of the Labour Government to give 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote in all elections; believes that the voting age should be reduced to 16 for all elections and referendums; and calls on the British Government to introduce legislation to accommodate this change.
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