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  Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill - Clause 11 - number and distribution of seats
  
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  The majority of MPs voted not to amend proposed rules intended to produce Parliamentary constituencies with equal numbers of electors. 
  
  In this vote the majority of MPs voted not to exempt Anglesey, The Isle of Wight and Cornwall and Isles of Scilly from the proposal to introduce parliamentary constituencies with the equal number of electors; not to broaden the band within which the population of all other constituencies must remain within. 
  
  The defeated amendment[1] would have required the relevant Boundary Commission to agree to any constituency having an electorate more than 5 per cent above or below the electoral quota for that part of the UK, and would have capped the maximum permitted variation from the quota at 10 per cent. 
  
  The detail of the proposed change that was the subject of the vote was to delete the section of the Bill which stated:
  
  :''Electorate per constituency''	
  :2     (1)  The electorate of any constituency shall beâ
  :		(a)   no less than 95% of the United Kingdom electoral quota, and
  :		(b)   no more than 105% of that quota.
  :       (2)  This rule is subject to rules 4(2), 6(2) and 7.
  :       (3)  In this Schedule the âUnited Kingdom electoral quotaâ meansâ: 
  :U/598
  :where U is the electorate of the United Kingdom minus the electorate of the constituencies mentioned in rule 6.
  
  (Rule 6 states: There shall continue to be a constituency named Orkney and Shetland, comprising the areas of the Orkney Islands Council and the Shetland Islands Council; and a constituency named Na h-Eileanan an Iar, comprising the area of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.[The Outer Hebrides])
  	   
  The proposal was to replace the above with:	
  :''1A'' 
  :(1) No constituency shall have an electorate more than 5 per cent. above or below the electoral quota for that part of the United Kingdom unless the Boundary Commission concerned believes there to be overriding reasons under the terms of these rules why it should.
  
  :(2) No constituency shall have an electorate more than 10 per cent. above or below the electoral quota for that part of the United Kingdom.
  
  :(3) In this Schedule "the electoral quota for that part of the United Kingdom" means-
  
  :U / Y
  
  :where U is the electorate of that part of the United Kingdom minus the electorate of the areas mentioned in rule 5A and Y is the number of constituencies in that part minus the number of constituencies allocated within that part as a result of the operation of rule 5A.'.
  
  Amendment 13 would have introduced a rule 5A as follows[2]:
  
  :''5A Specified areas''
  
  :(1) The following shall be allocated whole numbers of constituencies by whichever Boundary Commission is responsible for them:
  :(a) Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands council areas;
  :(b) Comhairle nan Eilean Siar council area;
  :(c) The Isle of Anglesey county area;
  :(d) The Isle of Wight county area;
  :(e) The County of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly council areas.'.
  
  The above amendments were being made to the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill[3][4]. 
  
  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2010-11-01b.653.5 Chris Bryant, House of Commons, 1 November 2010] - Introduction of amendment. 
  * [2] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2010-11-01b.653.6 Nigel Evans, Deputy Speaker,  House of Commons, 1 November 2010]
  * [3] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/parliamentaryvotingsystemandconstituencies.html Page on the Parliament website for the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill]
  * [4] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/098/11098.i-ii.html Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill - as amended in the committee of the whole house] - Published 26th October 2010
  
  
  
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