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Lords division · 4 Feb 2003 · No. 2

House of Lords Reform

It was moved by the Lord Privy Seal (Lord Williams of Mostyn) that this House approves Option 2 (fully elected) in the Report from the Joint Committee on House of Lords Reform; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and the House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 223

Contents: 106 Not Contents: 329

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 223 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

Labour 38
Liberal Democrat 31
Conservative 23
Crossbench 7
Non-affiliated 5
Independent Labour 1
Conservative Independent 1

Not Contents

Conservative 119
Crossbench 91
Labour 81
Non-affiliated 15
Liberal Democrat 13
Bishops 7
Lord Speaker 1
Independent Socialist 1
Green 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 Dubs (Content), Lord Graham of Edmonton (Content), Lord Norton of Louth (Not Content), Lord Gordon of Strathblane (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (104)

Not Contents (327)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.