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Debate on Thursday, 13 March 2008, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Tyler. The answering member was Lord Hunt of Kings Heath.

Elections: Voting Systems

Lords debate on motion to call attention to the "Review of Voting Systems: The Experience of New Voting Systems in the United Kingdom since 1997". Motion withdrawn.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
699 c1579-616 
Session
2007-08
Department
Ministry of Justice
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Roberts of Llandudno | 699 c1599-601 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, many of us will remember the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa, when folk had th...
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 699 c1591-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, not only for introducing this debate on electora...
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Lord Goodhart | 699 c1590 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, of course I support the democratic legitimacy of the House of Commons. That is why I would...
Lord Sewel | 699 c1590 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if I am following the noble Lord’s argument and that of the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, we wou...
Lord Norton of Louth | 699 c1585-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Maxton, and I, too, congratulate the noble...
Lord Maxton | 699 c1583-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, for introducing the debate. This is a very important s...
Lord Tyler | 699 c1579-83 (Link to this contribution) rose to call attention to the Review of Voting Systems: The Experience of New Voting Systems in the ...
Lord Tyler | 699 c1615-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in the course of one or two minutes, I clearly cannot do justice to a very wide-ranging de...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 699 c1615 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is very simple. Different situations call for different voting systems. So far as my ...
Lord Roberts of Llandudno | 699 c1615 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the Minister concludes, I want to ask one question. He said that the first past the...
Lord Grocott | 699 c1603-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I disagree with my noble friend on that. I am pretty wary of making comparisons internatio...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 699 c1610-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have heard some truly remarkable speeches in the debate, not least the contribution of ...
Lord Maxton | 699 c1607 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I assume that the noble Lord is not suggesting that the alternative vote system is somehow...
Lord Rennard | 699 c1604-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, nearly 12 years ago, I was the joint secretary for the talks between the Liberal Democrat ...
Lord Norton of Louth | 699 c1607-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the fact that 30 per cent of the voters vote for party A and 20 per cent for party B, and ...
Lord Roberts of Llandudno | 699 c1610 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, why did the Conservative Party, in choosing its own leader, not go for the first past the ...
Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 699 c1603 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I take the point that my noble friend is making, but would he accept that he is not compar...
Lord Grocott | 699 c1601-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, for giving us the opportunity to d...
Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 699 c1596-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, for initiating the debate. I should say a...
Lord Steel of Aikwood | 699 c1594-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness in that thoughtful and constructive sp...
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 699 c1593 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I know that the noble Lord is familiar with the work of other academics. Many academics ac...
Lord Norton of Louth | 699 c1593 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness is developing an interesting argument, but can she explain what in the ...
Lord Goodhart | 699 c1588-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is my intention—at the suggestion of my noble friend Lord Tyler, to whom I am very grat...
Lord Goodhart | 699 c1614 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister has not touched on one point that I raised. Does he agree that, given that th...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 699 c1614-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was going to come on to the House of Lords. I thought that if we started with it, we wou...
Lord Rennard | 699 c1607 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not suggesting for a moment that it is a system of proportional representation, and t...
Lord De Mauley | 699 c1608-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join other noble Lords in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, for bringing this subject...
Lord Rennard | 699 c1608 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think we should look at what happened in Scotland after 1999. The Labour Party had 33 pe...
Lord De Mauley | 699 c1610 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the situation surrounding the election by members of a party of a leader of their party, w...
Subjects
House of Lords House of Commons House of Lords composition Electoral systems General elections Proportional representation Voting behaviour Reform Simple majority electoral systems House of Commons composition Coalition governments
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