Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL] — Report (2nd Day) — 15 Jul 2015 at 19:43
Amendment 75
Moved by Lord Shipley
75: After Clause 10, insert the following new Clause-
“Governance arrangements of local authorities in England: election of councillors
(1) Section 36 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (local elections in England and Wales) is amended as follows.
(2) After subsection (1) insert-
“(1A) Rules made by the Secretary of State under subsection (1) must ensure that each vote in the poll at an election shall be a single transferable vote.
(1B) A single transferable vote is a vote-
(a) capable of being given so as to indicate the voter’s order of preference for the candidates for election as members for the constituency; and
(b) capable of being transferred to the next choice when the vote is not needed to give a prior choice the necessary quota of votes or when a prior choice is eliminated from the list of candidates because of a deficiency in the number of votes given for him.””
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 | 116 (+2 tell) | 0 | 50.6% |
| Crossbench | 12 | 4 | 8.6% |
| DUP | 1 | 0 | 25.0% |
| Green | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Judge | 1 | 0 | 6.7% |
| Lab | 84 | 0 | 38.4% |
| LDem | 0 | 64 (+2 tell) | 65.3% |
| Non-affiliated | 3 | 0 | 10.0% |
| UUP | 2 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 220 | 69 | 37.0% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.