South Down

Current MP

Chris Hazzard

Sinn Féin

9 years as MP

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Election history

Most-signed petitions in South Down

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

• Do not introduce Digital ID cards4,509 local · 2,984,191 total
• Call a General Election1,852 local · 3,084,713 total
• Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza515 local · 198,966 total
• Repeal the Online Safety Act502 local · 550,136 total
• Call an immediate general election449 local · 1,059,229 total
• Introduce offshore detention/mass deportation for illegal migrants424 local · 720,772 total
• Protect Northern Ireland Veterans from Prosecutions354 local · 209,956 total
• Cancel the clinical trial into puberty blockers & safeguard vulnerable children307 local · 150,424 total
• Make all forms of 'geo-engineering' affecting the environment illegal291 local · 160,631 total
• Don't change inheritance tax relief for working farms245 local · 154,005 total
• Ban immediately the use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures230 local · 257,938 total
• Stop financial and other support for asylum seekers193 local · 427,447 total
• Invest in brain cancer and give rights – turn terminal into treatable186 local · 109,063 total
• Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold181 local · 189,887 total
• Cut VAT for local hospitality – for Pubs, Cafes & Restaurants 168 local · 18,502 total
• Funding so all infants are offered Type 1 Diabetes Testing in routine care166 local · 121,152 total
• Shut the migrant hotels down now and deport illegal migrants housed there155 local · 257,442 total
• Mandatory collection and publication of certain child sexual offender data154 local · 260,974 total
• Introduce Statutory Menstrual Leave for People with Endometriosis & Adenomyosis146 local · 109,025 total
• Call a public inquiry into pro-Israel influence on politics & democracy142 local · 118,874 total

About South Down

South Down 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 Northern Ireland and has a registered electorate of 76,248 voters. Boundary reviews run on a regular cycle via the Boundary Commission — the current map was redrawn for the 2024 general election.