Hitchin

Current MP

Alistair Strathern

Labour

Efficiency 1.0/102 years as MP

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Election history

Most-signed petitions in Hitchin

Petitions ranked by how many people in this constituency signed them.

• Call a General Election4,951 local · 3,084,713 total
• Do not introduce Digital ID cards4,437 local · 2,984,191 total
• Call an immediate general election1,673 local · 1,059,229 total
• Introduce offshore detention/mass deportation for illegal migrants1,020 local · 720,772 total
• Repeal the Online Safety Act836 local · 550,136 total
• Stop financial and other support for asylum seekers610 local · 427,447 total
• Allow parents to take their children out of school for up to 10 days fine free.571 local · 181,597 total
• Ban immediately the use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures528 local · 257,938 total
• Appoint a Maternity Commissioner to improve maternity care for mums and babies501 local · 158,421 total
• Raise the income tax personal allowance from £12,570 to £20,000 426 local · 281,794 total
• Introduce 16 as the minimum age for children to have social media400 local · 132,102 total
• Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza398 local · 198,966 total
• Make Play and Continuous Provision statutory in England's Key Stage 1 Curriculum395 local · 106,082 total
• Retain legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND389 local · 132,789 total
• Mandatory collection and publication of certain child sexual offender data387 local · 260,974 total
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test377 local · 150,060 total
• Change the ‘grey belt’ definition in the National Planning Policy Framework370 local · 42,142 total
• Reduce the maximum noise level for consumer fireworks from 120 to 90 decibels356 local · 184,376 total
• Shut the migrant hotels down now and deport illegal migrants housed there332 local · 257,442 total
• Protect Northern Ireland Veterans from Prosecutions332 local · 209,956 total

About Hitchin

Hitchin is one of 650 UK parliamentary constituencies that each elect a single Member of Parliament to the House of Commons under the first-past-the-post system. It sits in England and has a registered electorate of 75,877 voters. Boundary reviews run on a regular cycle via the Boundary Commission — the current map was redrawn for the 2024 general election.