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  Localism Bill - Schedule 2 - Allowing Voters to Express a Second Preference When Electing Mayors
  
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  @ MP voted no to allow people to express a second preference when voting for mayors which would get taken into account if no candidate obtained over half of the first preference votes; rejecting the alternative of not allowing a second preference to be expressed and declaring the candidate with the most votes the winner.
  
  @ MP voted aye to declare the candidate with the most votes the winner of mayoral elections rather than allowing people to express a second preference vote which would get taken into account if no candidate obtained over half of the first preference votes.
  
  The majority of MPs voted to elect mayors via the supplementary vote system rather than the simple majority system.
  
  MPs were considering the Localism Bill[1].  The text of amendment rejected in this vote was:
  :Amendment  2,Â pageÂ 199, leave out lines 30 to 43 and insert
  :âThe elected mayor is to be returned under the simple majority system.â
  
  This would have taken effect on clause 9HL titled "Voting at elections of elected mayors" within a New Part 1A of the Local Government Act 2000[2] which Schedule 2 to the Localism Bill would have inserted. 
  
  The supplementary vote system gives electors the opportunity to indicate a second preference in elections where there are more than two candidates, and if no candidate gets over half of the first preference votes the [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/22/schedule/2/paragraph/3 rules set out in Schedule 2, Paragraph 3, of the Local Government Act 2000] take effect and the two candidates with most first preference votes (and any others with tied with them on the same number of votes) stay in the contest; and the second preferences of those who gave their first preferences to the other candidates are allocated to them. 
  
  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/localism.html Parliament's webpage on the Localism Bill (now the Localism Act 2011)]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/161/11161.199-205.html Page of the Localism Bill as at the time of the vote containing clause 9HL of the New Part 1A of the Local Government Act 2000 inserted by Schedule 2 of the Localism Bill] 
  
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