Parliamentary petitions

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Ive got one. It has to trigger a by-election if a politician leaves the party within which they gained their seat.

So, no independent MPs or Local Councillors then?

:rolleyes . Of course not, they leave the party they were in when they got elected - triggering a by election -they stand as an independent - or the new party they jumped to. 
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This is another one of my bug bears.
MP gets elected as a conservative. People have voted him in because of who he is and which party he represents. Sometime later he defects to labour. HE should immediately invoke a byelection as he was partially voted in because he represented conservative, not labour and therefore his position is no longer valid.