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Committee of the whole House: 12 October 2010
295

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, continued

Iain Stewart

Mrs Eleanor Laing

153

Schedule  2,  page  48,  line  29,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘must’.

Iain Stewart

Mrs Eleanor Laing

154

Schedule  2,  page  48,  line  32,  at end insert—

‘(4A)
If the difference between the total number of votes cast in the referendum in the

country in favour of the answer “Yes” and the total number of votes cast in the

referendum in the country in favour of the answer “No” is fewer than 10,000 or

0.1 per cent. of the total number of votes cast, whichever is the smaller number,

the Chief Counting Officer must give a direction to regional counting officers to

have all the votes in their region re-counted.’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

279


Schedule  2,  page  50,  leave out lines 34 and 35 and insert ‘relevant registration officer’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

280


Schedule  2,  page  51,  line  11,  at end insert—

    ‘(3)
For the purposes of paragraph (1) the relevant registration officer is—

(a)
the registration officer of the local authority in whose area the

counting officer’s voting area is situated, or

(b)
if the voting area comprises any part of the area of more than one local

authority, the registration officer of the local authority in whose area

the greater or greatest (as the case may be) number of electors is

registered.


In this paragraph “local authority” has the same meaning as in paragraph 2A

of Schedule 1.’.

Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil

Jonathan Edwards

Hywel Williams

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

143

Schedule  2,  page  54,  leave out lines 7 to 16 and insert ‘In England the ballot shall be as

follows:

Front of ballot paper

Rank your preference for the system for electing members to the House

of Commons

Please rank in order of preference (1,2,3)

You must mark at least one number on the ballot

Alternative Vote

First Past the Post

Single Transferable Vote

Committee of the whole House: 12 October 2010
296

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, continued

In Wales, the ballot paper shall be as follows:

Front of ballot paper

Graddiwch pa gyfundrefn o ethol aelodau i Ty’r Cyffredin sydd well

gennych chi

Rhowch pa gynfundrefn sydd well gennych chi yn ôl trefn blaenoriaeth

(1,2,3)

Rhaid i chi farcio o leiaf un rhif ar y papur pleidleisio.

Rank your preference for the system for electing members to the House

of Commons

Please Rank in order of preference (1,2,3)

You must mark at least one number on the ballot.

Pleidlais Amgen/

Alternative Vote

Cyntaf i’r Felin/

First Past the Post

Pleidlais Sengl Drosglwyddadwy/

Single Transferable Vote

In Scotland, the ballot paper shall be as follows:

Front of ballot paper

Rangaich do roghainn a thaobh an t-siostaim taghaidh buill gu Taigh nan

Cumantan

Rangaich iad a rèir do roghainn (1,2,3)

Feumaidh tu co-dhiù aon àireamh a chomharrachadh sa bhaileat.

Rank your preference for the system for electing members to the House

of Commons

Please Rank in order of preference (1,2,3)

You must mark at least one number on the ballot.

Bhòt Eadar-rognach/

Alternative Vote

A’Chiad Bhuannaiche/

First Past the Post

Bhòt Mhalairteach Shinglite/

Single Transferable Vote

Committee of the whole House: 12 October 2010
297

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, continued

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Austin Mitchell

20

Schedule  2,  page  54,  leave out lines 9 to 16 and insert—

‘

Vote (X) once for question 1

1. Do you want to change the current
Yes

“first past the post” system for

electing Members of Parliament to the

House of Commons

No

Then list your preference for what new system might be adopted by

numbering 1, 2, 3 for question 2

2. If there was a change do you want the United Kingdom to adopt:

(a) The “alternative vote” system or

(b) The “additional member system”

or

(c) The “single transferable vote”

system with three member

constituencies?’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

281


Schedule  2,  page  54,  line  9,  after ‘for’ insert ‘United Kingdom’.

Austin Mitchell

256


Schedule  2,  page  54,  line  9,  at end insert—

       ‘Question 1’

The Deputy Prime Minister

282


Schedule  2,  page  54,  leave out line 10.

Mr Bernard Jenkin

Mrs Eleanor Laing

Mr Christopher Chope

Sir Stuart Bell

Mr Edward Leigh

246

Schedule  2,  page  54,  leave out lines 11 to 14 and insert ‘Do you want the United

Kingdom to replace the current system for electing Members of Parliament to the House

of Commons with optional preferential voting with instant runoff?’.

Committee of the whole House: 12 October 2010
298

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, continued

The Deputy Prime Minister

Mr Graham Allen

Sheila Gilmore

Simon Hart

Tristram Hunt

Mrs Eleanor Laing

232

Schedule  2,  page  54,  leave out lines 11 to 14 and insert—

‘At present, the UK uses the “first past the post”

system to elect MPs to the House of Commons.

Should the “alternative vote” system be used instead?’.

Austin Mitchell

257


Schedule  2,  page  54,  leave out lines 11 to 14 and insert—

‘Do you want to change the current “first past the post” system for electing Members of

Parliament to the House of Commons?’.

Mr Philip Hollobone

223

Schedule  2,  page  54,  line  12,  after ‘vote’, insert ‘plus’.

Mr Bernard Jenkin

Sir Stuart Bell

Mrs Eleanor Laing

Mr Edward Leigh

249


Schedule  2,  page  54,  line  12,  leave out ‘“first past the post”’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

283


Schedule  2,  page  54,  line  14,  at end insert—

‘Vote (X) in one box only.’.

Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

89

Schedule  2,  page  54,  line  16,  at end insert—

Referendum on mandatory voting for parliamentary general

elections

Vote (X) once only

Do you want the United Kingdom to make it mandatory, for any general

election of Members of Parliament to the House of Commons, for all

persons whose names appear on the electoral register either to attend a

polling station and be handed a ballot paper on polling day, or to request

that a ballot paper be received through the post?

YES

NO

Committee of the whole House: 12 October 2010
299

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, continued

Liz Kendall

Stella Creasy

Sir Peter Soulsby

Stephen Twigg

Kate Green

121

Schedule  2,  page  54,  line  16,  at end insert—

Referendum on elections for the House of Lords

Vote (X) once only

Do you want to elect Members of the House of Lords using the “single

transferable vote” system instead of the current system of

appointment?

YES

NO

Austin Mitchell

258


Schedule  2,  page  54,  line  16,  at end insert—

‘Question 2.

You must mark at least one number on

the ballot

If there were a change, list your order of preference, 1, 2, 3, 4, for the United

Kingdom to adopt:

(a) The “alternative vote” system,

(b) The “alternative vote top-up” system as recommended by the Independent

Commission on the Voting System (the Jenkins Commission),

(c) The “additional member” system, or

(d) The “single transferable vote” system with multi- member constituencies?

The “alternative vote” system

The “alternative vote top-up” system as

recommended by the Independent

Commission on the Voting System (the

Jenkins Commission)

The “additional member” system

The “single transferable vote” system

with multi-member constituencies’.

Committee of the whole House: 12 October 2010
300

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, continued

Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

90

Schedule  2,  page  54,  line  20,  after ‘system’, insert ‘and on mandatory voting’.

Liz Kendall

Stella Creasy

Sir Peter Soulsby

Stephen Twigg

Kate Green

122

Schedule  2,  page  54,  line  20,  after ‘system’, insert ‘and on elections for the Houe of

Lords’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

284


Schedule  2,  page  54,  line  20,  after ‘for’ insert ‘United Kingdom’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

285


Schedule  2,  page  54,  line  26,  at end insert—


‘The official mark may be printed on either the front or the back of the ballot

paper if it does not consist of or include any letters or numbers; if it does, it

must be printed on the back of the ballot paper.’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

286


Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  1,  after ‘for’ insert ‘United Kingdom’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

287


Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  3,  leave out ‘once’ insert ‘in one box’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Austin Mitchell

21

Schedule  2,  page  55,  leave out line 3.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

Liz Kendall

Stella Creasy

Austin Mitchell

22

Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  4,  leave out ‘question’ and insert ‘questions’.

Committee of the whole House: 12 October 2010
301

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, continued

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

Liz Kendall

Stella Creasy

Austin Mitchell

23

Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  5,  leave out ‘question’ and insert ‘questions’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

288


Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  5,  leave out from ‘question’ to end of line 7.

The Deputy Prime Minister

289


Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  10,  after ‘for’ insert ‘United Kingdom’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

290


Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  19,  after ‘for’ insert ‘United Kingdom’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

291


Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  20,  leave out ‘once’ insert ‘in one box’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Austin Mitchell

24

Schedule  2,  page  55,  leave out line 20.

The Deputy Prime Minister

292


Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  21,  leave out paragraph 7 and insert—


‘The words mentioned in paragraph 6(a) must be printed in bold characters.


The words on the front of the ballot paper indicating the alternative forms of

answer to the referendum question must be printed in bold capital letters.’.

Caroline Lucas

Mr Douglas Carswell

Mr Roger Godsiff

Fiona Mactaggart

Liz Kendall

Stella Creasy

Austin Mitchell

25

Schedule  2,  page  55,  line  25,  leave out ‘question’ and insert ‘questions’.



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