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Lords division · 6 Apr 2022 · No. 3

Elections Bill

Lord Woolley of Woodford moved amendment 40, after clause 12, to insert the new clause Automatic voter registration. The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 31

Contents: 116 Not Contents: 147

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 31 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Labour 62
Liberal Democrat 40
Non-affiliated 7
Crossbench 5
Green Party 2

Not Contents

Conservative 124
Crossbench 9
Non-affiliated 8
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Lord Speaker 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Reform UK 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 (116)

Not Contents (147)

Source: the official Lords division record.