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Lords division · 7 Feb 2011 · No. 1

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

Lord Rooker moved amendment A1, in clause 1, page 1, line 5, at end to insert: “( ) If less than 40% of the electorate vote in the referendum, the result shall not be binding.”. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 1

Contents: 219 Not Contents: 218

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 1 vote. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 148
Crossbench 52
Conservative 9
Non-affiliated 6
Bishops 1
Independent Labour 1
Lord Speaker 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1

Not Contents

Conservative 113
Liberal Democrat 59
Crossbench 37
Non-affiliated 8
Ulster Unionist Party 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 Bassam of Brighton (Content), Lord Tunnicliffe (Content), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Not Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (217)

Not Contents (216)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.