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Lords division · 17 Jan 2011 · No. 2

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

Lord Soley moved amendment 59, in clause 11, page 9, to leave out line 18 and insert: “The number of constituencies in the United Kingdom shall be decided by an independent commission established by the government, but shall not exceed 650 or be less than 500.” The Committee divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 80

Contents: 131 Not Contents: 211

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 80 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 115
Crossbench 12
Non-affiliated 4

Not Contents

Conservative 127
Liberal Democrat 58
Crossbench 13
Non-affiliated 12
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: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Content), Lord Tunnicliffe (Content), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Not Content), Lord Shutt of Greetland (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (129)

Not Contents (209)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.