Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Clause 1 — Date of referendum on the alternative vote system — 12 Oct 2010 at 21:30
The majority of MPs voted to allow the referendum on introducing the alternative vote system for electing MPs to be held on the same day as elections to the Welsh Assembly or Scottish Parliament. The proposal, which was voted down, would have left to the Electoral Commission to set the date of the referendum subject to avoiding the clash and holding the referendum within 18 months of the act becoming law.
The proposed amendment which was the subject of this vote would have left out line 6 in the original bill[1] which stated:
- The referendum must be held on 5 May 2011.
The rejected proposal was to replace that specific date with the following arrangement:
- '(2) (a) The Electoral Commission shall within two months of Royal Assent to this Act specify
the date on which the referendum is to be held.
(b) The specified date must be-
(i) within 18 months of the date of Royal Assent to this Act, and
(ii) a date on which no other election to a parliament or assembly in the United Kingdom is to be held.
(c) The Minister must lay before Parliament the draft of an Order in Council to give effect to the specified date.
(d) The draft of the Order in Council under paragraph (c) above shall not be laid before Parliament until the specified date has been agreed by the Scottish Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the National Assembly for Wales.'.
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 are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
| Party | Majority (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
| Alliance | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Con | 268 (+2 tell) | 9 | 0 | 91.2% |
| DUP | 0 | 6 | 0 | 75.0% |
| Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.8% |
| LDem | 55 | 0 | 0 | 96.5% |
| PC | 0 | 1 (+1 tell) | 0 | 66.7% |
| SDLP | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SNP | 0 | 5 (+1 tell) | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 323 | 28 | 0 | 55.2% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
MPs 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 MP who could have voted in this division
Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | aye |
| Richard Shepherd | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | aye |