Amendments proposed to the Greater London Authority Bill - continued	House of Commons
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Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Tom Brake
Mr Edward Davey
Dr Vincent Cable
Dr Jenny Tonge

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Schedule     2,     page     143,     line     21,     at end insert—

'PART IA

RETURN OF CONSTITUENCY MEMBERS

Application

    1. This Part of this Schedule applies where there are three or more candidates in an Assembly constituency.

Candidate with overall majority of first preference votes

    2. If one of the candidates to be a constituency member receives more than half of all the first preference votes given in the Assembly constituency that candidate shall be returned as the constituency member for that Assembly constituency.

No candidate with overall majority of first preference votes

    3.—(1) If none of the candidates to be the constituency member receives more than half of all the first preference votes given in the Assembly constituency, the following provisions of this paragraph shall have effect.

    (2) The candidate with the fewest number of first preference votes is eliminated, and the second preference votes given for that candidate shall be ascertained.

    (3) The second preference votes under subsection (2) above shall be transferred to the other candidates, being added to the first preference votes cast for the other candidates.

    (4) If, following the recalculation under subsection (3) above, none of the candidates receives more than half of the votes, the remaining candidate with the fewest number of votes is eliminated and the proceed in subsections (2) and (3) above is carried out.

    (5) The process continues until one candidate has received more than half of all the votes, and that person shall be returned as the constancy member for that Assembly constituency.

    (6) If, by reason of an equality of total number of preference votes, two or more candidates remaining in the contest each have the greatest total number of preference votes, the constituency returning officer shall decide by lots which of them is to be returned as the constituency member for that Assembly constituency.'.

   

Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Tom Brake
Mr Edward Davey
Dr Vincent Cable
Dr Jenny Tonge

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Schedule     2,     page     143,     leave out from beginning of line 22 to end of line 25 on page 145.

   

Mr Richard Ottaway
Mr John M. Taylor

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*Schedule     2,     page     143,     line     27,     at end insert 'no later than 55 days prior to the date set for the ordinary election'.

   

Mrs Gillian Shephard
Mr Richard Ottaway
Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Tom Brake
Mr Edward Davey

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Schedule     2,     page     143,     line     31,     at end insert—

'(c) any London member elected as a member of a registered political party who resigns his party whip shall be deemed to have created a vacancy.'.

   

Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Tom Brake
Mr Edward Davey
Dr Vincent Cable
Dr Jenny Tonge

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Schedule     2,     page     144,     line     5,     after 'constituencies', insert 'with votes for candidates listed as members of a registered party counting towards the total vote of that party'.

   

Mrs Gillian Shephard
Mr Richard Ottaway

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Schedule     2,     page     144,     leave out lines 25 to 37.

   

Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Tom Brake
Mr Edward Davey
Dr Vincent Cable
Dr Jenny Tonge

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Schedule     2,     page     145,     line     3,     leave out from 'filled' to end of line 4 and insert—

    'as follows:

(a) A quota shall be determined which is equal to the total number of votes polled for all the parties divided by the number of seats to be allocated plus one.

(b) Votes cast for the candidate at the top of the party list shall be compared with the number of votes cast for the registered party to which that candidate belongs.

(c) Where the candidate has fewer votes than the quota, the votes for that candidate will then be topped up to reach the quota using votes from the party vote, reducing the number of votes won by the party accordingly.

(d) This process continues for each candidate on the list until the party votes have been exhausted, except where there are insufficient votes in the party vote to top up a candidate, in which case those votes are allocated to the next person on the list with sufficient votes, who moves one place up the list.'.

   

Mr Simon Hughes
Mr Paul Burstow
Mr Tom Brake
Mr Edward Davey
Dr Vincent Cable
Dr Jenny Tonge

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Schedule     2,     page     145,     line     3,     leave out from 'filled' to end of line 4 and insert 'in the order of votes cast for the candidates of that party, with the candidate receiving the highest number of votes being elected first.'.

   

Mrs Gillian Shephard
Mr Richard Ottaway

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Page     142,     line     25,     leave out Schedule 2.

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