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Lords division · 2 Jul 2025 · No. 1

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay moved amendment 2, to leave out clause 1 and insert the new clause Abolition of by-elections for hereditary peers. The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 37

Contents: 280 Not Contents: 243

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 37 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 244
Non-affiliated 13
Crossbench 11
Democratic Unionist Party 5
Bishops 2
Ulster Unionist Party 2
Reform UK 1
Lord Speaker 1
Green Party 1

Not Contents

Labour 142
Liberal Democrat 56
Crossbench 36
Non-affiliated 7
Plaid Cymru 2

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 Courtown (Content), Baroness Williams of Trafford (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (278)

Not Contents (241)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.