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Lords division · 14 Mar 2007 · No. 2

House of Lords Reform (option 4)

Lord Falconer of Thoroton moved that this House is of the opinion that a reformed House of Lords should be composed of 50% elected members and 50% appointed members. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 363

Contents: 46 Not Contents: 409

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 363 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost. This was not a whipped vote, so no party line applied.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 23
Crossbench 13
Conservative 6
Bishops 2
Non-affiliated 1
Liberal Democrat 1

Not Contents

Conservative 140
Labour 103
Crossbench 92
Liberal Democrat 47
Non-affiliated 18
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Independent Labour 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Independent Social Democrat 1
Lord Speaker 1
Green Party 1
Bishops 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 1

The party breakdowns are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.

Peers attend divisions ad hoc, so there is no did-not-vote list. Tellers are counted in the Content and Not Content totals, unlike in the Commons.

Tellers: Viscount Bledisloe (Content), Lord Wright of Richmond (Content), Baroness Eccles of Moulton (Not Content), Lord Tomlinson (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (44)

Not Contents (408)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.