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Lords division · 26 Jan 2011 · No. 1

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

Lord Touhig moved amendment 89BA, in clause 11, page 11, line 26, at end to insert: “(5) If the number of constituencies allocated to Wales under sub-paragraph (3) is fewer than 35, an additional allocation shall be made to Wales to ensure that it has 35 constituencies. (6) Where an additional allocation is made under sub-paragraph (5) above, sub-paragraph (7) shall apply in place of rule 2. (7) The electorate of any constituency in Wales shall be— (a) no less than 95% of the Welsh electoral quota; and (b) no more than 105% of that quota; the “Wales electoral quota” meaning W/P, where W is the electorate of Wales and P is the number of constituencies allocated to Wales.” The Committee divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 47

Contents: 149 Not Contents: 196

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 47 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 122
Crossbench 21
Non-affiliated 3
Bishops 1
Independent Labour 1
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 115
Liberal Democrat 52
Crossbench 18
Non-affiliated 9
Lord Speaker 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 (147)

Not Contents (194)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.