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Lords division · 8 Feb 2011 · No. 4

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

Lord Falconer of Thoroton moved amendment 18F, in clause 11, page 9, to leave out lines 36 and 37 and insert: “United Kingdom electoral quota 1 The United Kingdom electoral quota shall be defined as the total electorate of the United Kingdom on the designated enumeration day divided by 650.”. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 81

Contents: 171 Not Contents: 252

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 81 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 148
Crossbench 12
Non-affiliated 9
Independent Labour 1
Plaid Cymru 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1

Not Contents

Conservative 142
Liberal Democrat 65
Crossbench 31
Non-affiliated 10
Lord Speaker 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
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 (170)

Not Contents (249)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.