The 'Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU' petition has doubled in size since yesterday (March 21) and thousands of people from Cambridgeshire have signed it.
The petition now has nearly 3.5 million signatures on it, and was getting so much activity that it crashed the Parliament petition website several times.
At the time of publication, 16,811 people in Cambridge, 14 per cent of the electorate, have signed the petition while South and South East Cambridgeshire had 12,013 signatures (10.5 per cent) and 10,000 signatures (8.5 per cent) respectively.
The north of the county hasn't been so quick to sign the petition, with Huntingdon on 5,879 signatures (5 per cent), North West Cambs on 5,095 (3.96 per cent), North East Cambs on 2,791 signatures (2.42 per cent), and Peterborough on 3,018 signatures (2.54 per cent).
But it still means that Cambridgeshire is one of the counties with the most signatures in the country, according to a heat map made by Unboxed.
For Cambridge, that's an additional 10,000 people who have signed the petition since 6pm yesterday (March 21).
In total, 55,607 people in the county have signed.
That's 2.6 times more people than yesterday evening.
Figures show that roughly 74 per cent of people in Cambridge voted to remain in the EU referendum.
The petition - created on February 14- began gaining signatures on Wednesday evening after Theresa May’s speech criticising MPs for not backing her Brexit deal.
Although the petition has little formal power, it may grab the attention of MPs.
Alan Wager, research associate at thinktank The UK in a Changing Europe, said: “What these results show is there is that voters remain unimpressed with the Brexit process so far.
“Where the petition has been signed, and the fact that places that voted Remain are most strongly represented, is no great shock.
“Equally, its value is in grabbing the attention of MPs and Westminster - the petition means they have to debate it, but doesn't compel Mrs May to take any action, no matter how many people sign it.
“But the fact revocation remains the only step that the UK can itself make unilaterally and independently - if the government's deal and no deal are ruled out - means that revocation could soon be entering the mainstream of British politics.
“As a result, this petition could be an important political symbol. The fact many of the constituencies that have a disproportionate number of signatures are bellwether electoral seats should give both Labour and the Conservatives pause for thought.”
You can see the petition's current progress here.
