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Lords division · 14 Mar 2007 · No. 3

House of Lords Reform (option 5)

Lord Falconer of Thoroton moved that this House is of the opinion that a reformed House of Lords should be composed of 60% elected members and 40% appointed members. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 347

Contents: 45 Not Contents: 392

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 347 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 24
Crossbench 10
Conservative 7
Bishops 2
Non-affiliated 1
Liberal Democrat 1

Not Contents

Conservative 132
Labour 105
Crossbench 87
Liberal Democrat 46
Non-affiliated 14
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Independent Labour 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Independent Social Democrat 1
Lord Speaker 1
Bishops 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: Lord Turner of Ecchinswell (Content), Lord Soley (Content), Lord Norton of Louth (Not Content), Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (43)

Not Contents (391)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.