Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Reduce Number of MPs from 650 to 600 — 8 Feb 2011 at 19:51
The majority of members of the House of Lords voted against reducing the number of MPs from 650 to 600.
The House of Lords was considering the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill[1]. The amendment rejected in this vote was:
- Amendment 18F: Clause 11, page 9, leave out lines 36 and 37 and insert-
- "United Kingdom electoral quota
- 1 The United Kingdom electoral quota shall be defined as the total electorate of the United Kingdom on the designated enumeration day divided by 650."
As the amendment was rejected the relevant section[2] remained:
- Number of constituencies
- 1 The number of constituencies in the United Kingdom shall be 600.
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Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.Party | Majority (Not-Content) | Minority (Content) | Turnout |
Con | 152 (+1 tell) | 0 | 68.6% |
Crossbench | 20 | 8 | 14.7% |
Independent Labour | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
Lab | 1 | 153 (+2 tell) | 63.2% |
LDem | 75 (+1 tell) | 0 | 78.4% |
PC | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
UUP | 1 | 1 | 50.0% |
Total: | 249 | 164 | 54.7% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
Lords for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible lord who could have voted in this division
Name | Party | Vote |
Lord Elystan-Morgan | Crossbench | aye |
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | Crossbench | aye |
Lord Haskins | Crossbench | aye |
Lord Kilclooney | Crossbench | aye |
Lord Low of Dalston | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |
Lord Moser | Crossbench | aye |
Lord Patel of Bradford | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |
Lord Rees of Ludlow | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |
Lord Robertson of Port Ellen | Crossbench | aye |
The Earl of Stair | Crossbench | aye |
Baroness Smith of Basildon | Lab (minister) | no |