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Lords division · 23 Mar 2018 · No. 2

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL]

Lord Trefgarne moved amendment 10, in clause 1, page 1, line 4, to leave out subsections (2) and (3) and insert— “(2) In section 2, after subsection (4) insert— “(4A) Standing Orders must provide that any vacancy must be open to any hereditary peer, and that the method used for the by-election to fill that vacancy, including the electors eligible to vote, must not be based on any party political affiliation.”” The Committee divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 91

Contents: 20 Not Contents: 111

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 91 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost. This was not a whipped vote, so no party line applied.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 18
Crossbench 2

Not Contents

Labour 50
Crossbench 19
Liberal Democrat 19
Conservative 11
Non-affiliated 10
Lord Speaker 1
Bishops 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: The Earl of Caithness (Content), Lord Trefgarne (Content), Baroness Donaghy (Not Content), Lord Snape (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (18)

Not Contents (109)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.