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Lords division · 9 Feb 2011 · No. 3

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

Lord Falconer of Thoroton moved amendment 25ZB, in clause 11, page 12, line 13, at end to insert: “(6) The total number of seats to be allocated to any part of the UK shall not be more than ten per cent fewer than the current number of constituencies; and if the number of seats allocated by the process described in sub-paragraphs 1 to 5 of rule 9 exceeds that limit in any part of the UK then additional constituencies shall be allocated to that part to bring its allocation within ten per cent of the current number of constituencies. (7) This number of seats shall then be the allocation for that part of the UK for the purposes of rule 9. (8) Any reallocation to one or more parts of the UK made under the terms of sub-paragraphs (6) and (7) above shall not result in any change to the allocation already allotted to any other parts of the UK.”. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 56

Contents: 191 Not Contents: 247

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 56 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 152
Crossbench 28
Non-affiliated 8
Independent Labour 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Bishops 1

Not Contents

Conservative 141
Liberal Democrat 66
Crossbench 29
Non-affiliated 9
Lord Speaker 1
Independent Ulster Unionist 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 (189)

Not Contents (245)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.