Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Part 3 — Question for referendum on the system for electing MPs — 12 Oct 2010 at 23:00

The majority of MPs voted not to include an option allowing people to express a preference for voting systems expected to result in proportional representation during the referendum on the system used to elect MPs.

The majority of MPs voted against a proposal by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas which suggested first asking if the system should be changed at all, then moving on to ask voters to rank the alternative vote, the additional member system, and the ‘single transferable vote’ system with multi-member constituencies, in order of preference.

During the debate prior to the vote Caroline Lucas said:

"We owe it to the electorate to put before them a choice that includes a genuinely proportional system"^[1]

The rejected amendment would have deleted the original question contained within the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill^[2] which read:

Do you want the United Kingdom to adopt the “alternative vote” system instead of the current “first past the post” system for electing Members of Parliament to the House of Commons?

The questions Caroline Lucas MP was seeking to have that referendum question replaced with were^[3]:

(1) Do you want to change the current “first past the post” system for electing Members of Parliament to the House of Commons?
(2) If there were a change, list your order of preference, 1, 2, 3, for the United Kingdom to adopt:
(a) The ‘alternative vote’ system,
(b) The ‘additional member’ system, or
(c) The ‘single transferable vote’ system with multi-member constituencies?”.

Caroline Lucas explained during debate that she had tabled the amendment on the basis that

"it is contradictory for the coalition to be talking about electoral reform while seeking to offer little more than a Hobson's choice, between AV and first past the post"^[4].

Caroline Lucas' amendment sought to include the options of STV and the additional member system, which would be much more likely to result in "Proportional Representation" ie. with the fraction of MPs in the commons from a particular party reflecting the fraction of the national vote.

Debate in Parliament | Source |

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Name	Constituency	Party	Vote
Naomi Long	Belfast East	Alliance	aye
Douglas Carswell	Clacton	Con	tellaye
Jonathan Evans	Cardiff North	Con	aye
Philip Hollobone	Kettering	Con	aye
Nigel Adams	Selby and Ainsty	Con	no
Adam Afriyie	Windsor	Con	no
Peter Aldous	Waveney	Con	no
Sir David Amess	Southend West	Con	no
Stuart Andrew	Pudsey	Con	no
James Arbuthnot	North East Hampshire	Con	no
Richard Bacon	South Norfolk	Con	no
Steven Baker	Wycombe	Con	no
Tony Baldry	Banbury	Con	no
Harriett Baldwin	West Worcestershire	Con	no
Steve Barclay	North East Cambridgeshire	Con	no
Gregory Barker	Bexhill and Battle	Con	no
Gavin Barwell	Croydon Central	Con	no
Guto Bebb	Aberconwy	Con	no
Henry Bellingham	North West Norfolk	Con	no
Richard Benyon	Newbury	Con	no
Paul Beresford	Mole Valley	Con	no
Jake Berry	Rossendale and Darwen	Con	no
Andrew Bingham	High Peak	Con	no
Bob Blackman	Harrow East	Con	no
Nicola Blackwood	Oxford West and Abingdon	Con	no
Crispin Blunt	Reigate	Con	no
Nicholas Boles	Grantham and Stamford	Con	no
Peter Bone	Wellingborough	Con	no
Peter Bottomley	Worthing West	Con	no
Karen Bradley	Staffordshire Moorlands	Con	no
Angie Bray	Ealing Central and Acton	Con	no
Julian Brazier	Canterbury	Con	no
Steve Brine	Winchester	Con	no
James Brokenshire	Old Bexley and Sidcup	Con	no
Fiona Bruce	Congleton	Con	no
Robert Buckland	South Swindon	Con	no
Aidan Burley	Cannock Chase	Con	no
Conor Burns	Bournemouth West	Con	no
Simon Burns	Chelmsford	Con	no
David Burrowes	Enfield, Southgate	Con	no
Alistair Burt	North East Bedfordshire	Con	no
Alun Cairns	Vale of Glamorgan	Con	no
Neil Carmichael	Stroud	Con	no
Rehman Chishti	Gillingham and Rainham	Con	no
James Clappison	Hertsmere	Con	no
Greg Clark	Tunbridge Wells	Con	no
Kenneth Clarke	Rushcliffe	Con	no
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown	The Cotswolds	Con	no
Therese Coffey	Suffolk Coastal	Con	no
Damian Collins	Folkestone and Hythe	Con	no
Oliver Colvile	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport	Con	no
Geoffrey Cox	Torridge and West Devon	Con	no
Stephen Crabb	Preseli Pembrokeshire	Con	no
Tracey Crouch	Chatham and Aylesford	Con	no
David Davies	Monmouth	Con	no
Glyn Davies	Montgomeryshire	Con	no
Philip Davies	Shipley	Con	no
Nick de Bois	Enfield North	Con	no
Caroline Dinenage	Gosport	Con	no
Jonathan Djanogly	Huntingdon	Con	no
Stephen Dorrell	Charnwood	Con	no
Nadine Dorries	Mid Bedfordshire	Con	no
Jackie Doyle-Price	Thurrock	Con	no
Richard Drax	South Dorset	Con	no
James Duddridge	Rochford and Southend East	Con	tellno
Alan Duncan	Rutland and Melton	Con	no
Iain Duncan Smith	Chingford and Woodford Green	Con	no
Philip Dunne	Ludlow	Con	no
Michael Ellis	Northampton North	Con	no
Jane Ellison	Battersea	Con	no
Tobias Ellwood	Bournemouth East	Con	no
Charlie Elphicke	Dover	Con	no
George Eustice	Camborne and Redruth	Con	no
Graham Evans	Weaver Vale	Con	no
David Evennett	Bexleyheath and Crayford	Con	no
Michael Fabricant	Lichfield	Con	no
Michael Fallon	Sevenoaks	Con	no
Mark Field	Cities of London and Westminster	Con	no
Liam Fox	North Somerset	Con	no
Mark Francois	Rayleigh and Wickford	Con	no
George Freeman	Mid Norfolk	Con	no
Mike Freer	Finchley and Golders Green	Con	no
Lorraine Fullbrook	South Ribble	Con	no
Richard Fuller	Bedford	Con	no
Edward Garnier	Harborough	Con	no
Mark Garnier	Wyre Forest	Con	no
David Gauke	South West Hertfordshire	Con	no
Nick Gibb	Bognor Regis and Littlehampton	Con	no
Dame Cheryl Gillan	Chesham and Amersham	Con	no
John Glen	Salisbury	Con	no
Zac Goldsmith	Richmond Park	Con	no
Robert Goodwill	Scarborough and Whitby	Con	no
Michael Gove	Surrey Heath	Con	no
Richard Graham	Gloucester	Con	no
Helen Grant	Maidstone and The Weald	Con	no
James Gray	North Wiltshire	Con	no
Chris Grayling	Epsom and Ewell	Con	no
Damian Green	Ashford	Con	no
Justine Greening	Putney	Con	no
Dominic Grieve	Beaconsfield	Con	no
Andrew Griffiths	Burton	Con	no
Ben Gummer	Ipswich	Con	no
Sam Gyimah	East Surrey	Con	no
Robert Halfon	Harlow	Con	no
Philip Hammond	Runnymede and Weybridge	Con	no
Stephen Hammond	Wimbledon	Con	no
Matthew Hancock	West Suffolk	Con	no
Greg Hands	Chelsea and Fulham	Con	no
Mark Harper	Forest of Dean	Con	no
Richard Harrington	Watford	Con	no
Rebecca Harris	Castle Point	Con	no
Simon Hart	Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire	Con	no
Alan Haselhurst	Saffron Walden	Con	no
John Hayes	South Holland and The Deepings	Con	no
Oliver Heald	North East Hertfordshire	Con	no
Chris Heaton-Harris	Daventry	Con	no
Gordon Henderson	Sittingbourne and Sheppey	Con	no
Charles Hendry	Wealden	Con	no
Nick Herbert	Arundel and South Downs	Con	no
Damian Hinds	East Hampshire	Con	no
Mark Hoban	Fareham	Con	no
George Hollingbery	Meon Valley	Con	no
Adam Holloway	Gravesham	Con	no
Kris Hopkins	Keighley	Con	no
Gerald Howarth	Aldershot	Con	no
John Howell	Henley	Con	no
Jeremy Hunt	South West Surrey	Con	no
Nick Hurd	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner	Con	no
Stewart Jackson	Peterborough	Con	no
Margot James	Stourbridge	Con	no
Sajid Javid	Bromsgrove	Con	no
Bernard Jenkin	Harwich and North Essex	Con	no
Gareth Johnson	Dartford	Con	no
Jo Johnson	Orpington	Con	no
Andrew Jones	Harrogate and Knaresborough	Con	no
David Jones	Clwyd West	Con	no
Marcus Jones	Nuneaton	Con	no
Daniel Kawczynski	Shrewsbury and Atcham	Con	no
Chris Kelly	Dudley South	Con	no
Simon Kirby	Brighton, Kemptown	Con	no
Greg Knight	East Yorkshire	Con	no
Kwasi Kwarteng	Spelthorne	Con	no
Eleanor Laing	Epping Forest	Con	no
Mark Lancaster	Milton Keynes North	Con	no
Andrew Lansley	South Cambridgeshire	Con	no
Pauline Latham	Mid Derbyshire	Con	no
Andrea Leadsom	South Northamptonshire	Con	no
Jessica Lee	Erewash	Con	no
Phillip Lee	Bracknell	Con	no
Jeremy Lefroy	Stafford	Con	no
Charlotte Leslie	Bristol North West	Con	no
Oliver Letwin	West Dorset	Con	no
Brandon Lewis	Great Yarmouth	Con	no
Julian Lewis	New Forest East	Con	no
Ian Liddell-Grainger	Bridgwater and West Somerset	Con	no
David Lidington	Aylesbury	Con	no
Peter Lilley	Hitchin and Harpenden	Con	no
Jonathan Lord	Woking	Con	no
Tim Loughton	East Worthing and Shoreham	Con	no
Peter Luff	Mid Worcestershire	Con	no
Karen Lumley	Redditch	Con	no
Mary Macleod	Brentford and Isleworth	Con	no
Anne Main	St Albans	Con	no
Francis Maude	Horsham	Con	no
Theresa May	Maidenhead	Con	no
Paul Maynard	Blackpool North and Cleveleys	Con	no
Jason McCartney	Colne Valley	Con	no
Karl McCartney	Lincoln	Con	no
Anne McIntosh	Thirsk and Malton	Con	no
Patrick McLoughlin	Derbyshire Dales	Con	no
Stephen McPartland	Stevenage	Con	no
Esther McVey	Wirral West	Con	no
Louise Mensch	Corby	Con	no
Mark Menzies	Fylde	Con	no
Patrick Mercer	Newark	Con	no
Stephen Metcalfe	South Basildon and East Thurrock	Con	no
Maria Miller	Basingstoke	Con	no
Nigel Mills	Amber Valley	Con	no
Anne Milton	Guildford	Con	no
Andrew Mitchell	Sutton Coldfield	Con	no
Penny Mordaunt	Portsmouth North	Con	no
Nicky Morgan	Loughborough	Con	no
Anne Marie Morris	Newton Abbot	Con	no
David Morris	Morecambe and Lunesdale	Con	no
James Morris	Halesowen and Rowley Regis	Con	no
Stephen Mosley	City of Chester	Con	no
David Mowat	Warrington South	Con	no
David Mundell	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	Con	no
Sheryll Murray	South East Cornwall	Con	no
Andrew Murrison	South West Wiltshire	Con	no
Bob Neill	Bromley and Chislehurst	Con	no
Brooks Newmark	Braintree	Con	no
Sarah Newton	Truro and Falmouth	Con	no
Caroline Nokes	Romsey and Southampton North	Con	no
Jesse Norman	Hereford and South Herefordshire	Con	no
David Nuttall	Bury North	Con	no
Stephen O'Brien	Eddisbury	Con	no
Matthew Offord	Hendon	Con	no
Eric Ollerenshaw	Lancaster and Fleetwood	Con	no
Guy Opperman	Hexham	Con	no
George Osborne	Tatton	Con	no
Richard Ottaway	Croydon South	Con	no
James Paice	South East Cambridgeshire	Con	no
Neil Parish	Tiverton and Honiton	Con	no
Priti Patel	Witham	Con	no
Owen Paterson	North Shropshire	Con	no
Mark Pawsey	Rugby	Con	no
Mike Penning	Hemel Hempstead	Con	no
John Penrose	Weston-Super-Mare	Con	no
Andrew Percy	Brigg and Goole	Con	no
Claire Perry	Devizes	Con	no
Stephen Phillips	Sleaford and North Hykeham	Con	no
Eric Pickles	Brentwood and Ongar	Con	no
Christopher Pincher	Tamworth	Con	no
Daniel Poulter	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich	Con	no
Mark Prisk	Hertford and Stortford	Con	no
Mark Pritchard	The Wrekin	Con	no
Dominic Raab	Esher and Walton	Con	no
John Randall	Uxbridge and South Ruislip	Con	no
Mark Reckless	Rochester and Strood	Con	no
John Redwood	Wokingham	Con	no
Jacob Rees-Mogg	North East Somerset	Con	no
Simon Reevell	Dewsbury	Con	no
Malcolm Rifkind	Kensington	Con	no
Andrew Robathan	South Leicestershire	Con	no
Hugh Robertson	Faversham and Mid Kent	Con	no
Laurence Robertson	Tewkesbury	Con	no
Andrew Rosindell	Romford	Con	no
Amber Rudd	Hastings and Rye	Con	no
David Ruffley	Bury St Edmunds	Con	no
David Rutley	Macclesfield	Con	no
Laura Sandys	South Thanet	Con	no
Lee Scott	Ilford North	Con	no
Andrew Selous	South West Bedfordshire	Con	no
Grant Shapps	Welwyn Hatfield	Con	no
Alok Sharma	Reading West	Con	no
Alec Shelbrooke	Elmet and Rothwell	Con	no
Mark Simmonds	Boston and Skegness	Con	no
Keith Simpson	Broadland	Con	no
Chris Skidmore	Kingswood	Con	no
Chloe Smith	Norwich North	Con	no
Henry Smith	Crawley	Con	no
Julian Smith	Skipton and Ripon	Con	no
Nicholas Soames	Mid Sussex	Con	no
Anna Soubry	Broxtowe	Con	no
Caroline Spelman	Meriden	Con	no
Mark Spencer	Sherwood	Con	no
Andrew Stephenson	Pendle	Con	no
John Stevenson	Carlisle	Con	no
Bob Stewart	Beckenham	Con	no
Iain Stewart	Milton Keynes South	Con	no
Rory Stewart	Penrith and The Border	Con	no
Gary Streeter	South West Devon	Con	no
Mel Stride	Central Devon	Con	no
Graham Stuart	Beverley and Holderness	Con	no
Julian Sturdy	York Outer	Con	no
Desmond Swayne	New Forest West	Con	no
Hugo Swire	East Devon	Con	no
Robert Syms	Poole	Con	no
Edward Timpson	Crewe and Nantwich	Con	no
Justin Tomlinson	North Swindon	Con	no
David Tredinnick	Bosworth	Con	no
Elizabeth Truss	South West Norfolk	Con	no
Andrew Turner	Isle of Wight	Con	no
Andrew Tyrie	Chichester	Con	no
Paul Uppal	Wolverhampton South West	Con	no
Ed Vaizey	Wantage	Con	no
Shailesh Vara	North West Cambridgeshire	Con	no
Martin Vickers	Cleethorpes	Con	no
Theresa Villiers	Chipping Barnet	Con	no
Charles Walker	Broxbourne	Con	no
Robin Walker	Worcester	Con	no
Ben Wallace	Wyre and Preston North	Con	no
Robert Walter	North Dorset	Con	no
Angela Watkinson	Hornchurch and Upminster	Con	no
Mike Weatherley	Hove	Con	no
James Wharton	Stockton South	Con	no
Chris White	Warwick and Leamington	Con	no
Craig Whittaker	Calder Valley	Con	no
John Whittingdale	Maldon	Con	no
Bill Wiggin	North Herefordshire	Con	no
David Willetts	Havant	Con	no
Gavin Williamson	South Staffordshire	Con	no
Rob Wilson	Reading East	Con	no
Sarah Wollaston	Totnes	Con	no
Jeremy Wright	Kenilworth and Southam	Con	no
Tim Yeo	South Suffolk	Con	no
George Young	North West Hampshire	Con	no
Nadhim Zahawi	Stratford-on-Avon	Con	no
Gregory Campbell	East Londonderry	DUP	no
Nigel Dodds	Belfast North	DUP	no
Jeffrey M. Donaldson	Lagan Valley	DUP	no
William McCrea	South Antrim	DUP	no
Jim Shannon	Strangford	DUP	no
David Simpson	Upper Bann	DUP	no
Caroline Lucas	Brighton, Pavilion	Green	aye
Nicholas Dakin	Scunthorpe	Lab	aye
Austin Mitchell	Great Grimsby	Lab	tellaye
Andrew Smith	Oxford East	Lab	aye
Kelvin Hopkins	Luton North	Lab	no
Dennis Skinner	Bolsover	Lab	no
Danny Alexander	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	LDem	no
Norman Baker	Lewes	LDem	no
Alan Beith	Berwick-upon-Tweed	LDem	no
Gordon Birtwistle	Burnley	LDem	no
Tom Brake	Carshalton and Wallington	LDem	no
Annette Brooke	Mid Dorset and North Poole	LDem	no
Jeremy Browne	Taunton Deane	LDem	no
Malcolm Bruce	Gordon	LDem	no
Paul Burstow	Sutton and Cheam	LDem	no
Lorely Burt	Solihull	LDem	no
Vincent Cable	Twickenham	LDem	no
Menzies Campbell	North East Fife	LDem	no
Alistair Carmichael	Orkney and Shetland	LDem	no
Nick Clegg	Sheffield, Hallam	LDem	no
Michael Crockart	Edinburgh West	LDem	no
Edward Davey	Kingston and Surbiton	LDem	no
Tim Farron	Westmorland and Lonsdale	LDem	no
Lynne Featherstone	Hornsey and Wood Green	LDem	no
Don Foster	Bath	LDem	no
Andrew George	St Ives	LDem	no
Stephen Gilbert	St Austell and Newquay	LDem	no
Duncan Hames	Chippenham	LDem	no
Mike Hancock	Portsmouth South	whilst LDem	no
Nick Harvey	North Devon	LDem	no
David Heath	Somerton and Frome	LDem	no
John Hemming	Birmingham, Yardley	LDem	no
Martin Horwood	Cheltenham	LDem	no
Simon Hughes	Bermondsey and Old Southwark	LDem	no
Mark Hunter	Cheadle	LDem	tellno
Julian Huppert	Cambridge	LDem	no
Charles Kennedy	Ross, Skye and Lochaber	LDem	no
Norman Lamb	North Norfolk	LDem	no
David Laws	Yeovil	LDem	no
John Leech	Manchester, Withington	LDem	no
Stephen Lloyd	Eastbourne	LDem	no
Michael Moore	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk	LDem	no
Greg Mulholland	Leeds North West	LDem	no
John Pugh	Southport	LDem	no
Alan Reid	Argyll and Bute	LDem	no
Dan Rogerson	North Cornwall	LDem	no
Bob Russell	Colchester	LDem	no
Adrian Sanders	Torbay	LDem	no
Robert Smith	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	LDem	no
Andrew Stunell	Hazel Grove	LDem	no
Ian Swales	Redcar	LDem	no
Jo Swinson	East Dunbartonshire	LDem	no
Sarah Teather	Brent Central	LDem	no
John Thurso	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	LDem	no
David Ward	Bradford East	LDem	no
Steve Webb	Thornbury and Yate	LDem	no
Mark Williams	Ceredigion	LDem	no
Roger Williams	Brecon and Radnorshire	LDem	no
Stephen Williams	Bristol West	LDem	no
Jennifer Willott	Cardiff Central	LDem	no
Simon Wright	Norwich South	LDem	no
Elfyn Llwyd	Dwyfor Meirionnydd	PC	aye
Hywel Williams	Arfon	PC	aye
Mark Durkan	Foyle	SDLP	aye
Alasdair McDonnell	Belfast South	SDLP	aye
Margaret Ritchie	South Down	SDLP	aye
Stewart Hosie	Dundee East	SNP	aye
Angus MacNeil	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	SNP	aye
Angus Robertson	Moray	SNP	aye
Michael Weir	Angus	SNP	aye
Eilidh Whiteford	Banff and Buchan	SNP	aye
Pete Wishart	Perth and North Perthshire	SNP	aye

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Part 3 — Question for referendum on the system for electing MPs — 12 Oct 2010 at 23:00

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