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Lords division · 14 Mar 2007 · No. 5

House of Lords Reform (option 7)

Lord Falconer of Thoroton moved that this House is of the opinion that a reformed House of Lords should be fully elected. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 204

Contents: 122 Not Contents: 326

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 204 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 55
Liberal Democrat 37
Crossbench 11
Conservative 9
Non-affiliated 8
Independent Labour 1
Independent Social Democrat 1

Not Contents

Conservative 132
Crossbench 91
Labour 79
Non-affiliated 9
Liberal Democrat 6
Bishops 3
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Lord Speaker 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: Baroness Gale (Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Content), Lord Norton of Louth (Not Content), Baroness Gould of Potternewton (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (120)

Not Contents (324)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.