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Lords division · 14 Mar 2007 · No. 4

House of Lords Reform (option 6)

Lord Falconer of Thoroton moved that this House is of the opinion that a reformed House of Lords should be composed of 80% elected members and 20% appointed members. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 222

Contents: 114 Not Contents: 336

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 222 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 37
Liberal Democrat 34
Conservative 20
Crossbench 16
Non-affiliated 6
Independent Social Democrat 1

Not Contents

Conservative 123
Labour 98
Crossbench 87
Non-affiliated 13
Liberal Democrat 6
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Bishops 2
Lord Speaker 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Independent Labour 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 Dubs (Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Content), Lord Norton of Louth (Not Content), Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (112)

Not Contents (334)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.