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Lords division · 8 Oct 2020 · No. 5

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

Lord Shutt of Greetland moved amendment 16, after clause 6, to insert the new clause Improving completeness of electoral registers for purposes of boundary reviews etc. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 78

Contents: 293 Not Contents: 215

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 78 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 134
Liberal Democrat 75
Crossbench 63
Non-affiliated 14
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Green Party 2
Independent Labour 1
Plaid Cymru 1

Not Contents

Conservative 185
Crossbench 19
Non-affiliated 8
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1
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.

Every vote

Contents (293)

Not Contents (215)

Source: the official Lords division record.