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Lords division · 4 Feb 2003 · No. 7

House of Lords Reform

It was moved by the Lord Privy Seal (Lord Williams of Mostyn) that this House approves Option 7 (50 per cent appointed/50 per cent 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 238

Contents: 84 Not Contents: 322

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 238 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 33
Liberal Democrat 24
Crossbench 11
Conservative 10
Non-affiliated 6

Not Contents

Conservative 119
Labour 87
Crossbench 82
Liberal Democrat 14
Non-affiliated 11
Bishops 5
Conservative Independent 1
Independent Labour 1
Green 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.

Tellers: Lord Graham of Edmonton (Content), Lord Roper (Content), Lord Norton of Louth (Not Content), Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (82)

Not Contents (320)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.