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Lords division · 7 Sep 2018 · No. 3

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

Lord True moved amendment 33A, in clause 1, page 1, line 12, at end to insert: “, if, within a month of the vacancy arising, the Prime Minister has recommended to Her Majesty the conferment of a peerage under the Life Peerages Act 1958 on a person who has the same party affiliation as that of the group to which the deceased excepted peer was originally elected.” The Committee divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 52

Contents: 21 Not Contents: 73

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 52 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 17
Crossbench 3
Non-affiliated 1

Not Contents

Labour 32
Liberal Democrat 20
Crossbench 14
Non-affiliated 4
Conservative 2
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 Trefgarne (Content), Lord True (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (19)

Not Contents (71)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.