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  Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill - Consideration of Commons Reasons and Amendments
  
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  @ MP voted aye to make the referendum on using the "alternative vote" system for electing MPs non-binding on the Government if less than 40% of the electorate took part.
  @ MP voted no against making the referendum on using the "alternative vote" system for electing MPs non-binding on the Government if less than 40% of the electorate took part.
  
  The majority of members of the House of Lords voted to make the referendum on using the "alternative vote" system for electing MPs non-binding on the Government if less than 40% of the electorate took part. 
  
  The House of Lords was considering the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill[1]. The amendment accepted in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment A1: As an amendment to Motion A, leave out from "House" to end and insert "do insist on its Amendments 1 and 8".
  
  Motion A was:
  
  :That this House do not insist on its Amendments 1 and 8 to which the Commons have disagreed for their Reasons 1A and 8A:
  
  Amendment 1 was:
  :Page 1, line 5, at end insertâ
  :â(1A)    If less than 40% of the electorate vote in the referendum, the result shall not be binding.â
  
  Amendment 8 was:
  
  :Page 5, line 36, at end insertâ
   	
  â( )    In section 1(1A)â
  	
  (a)    âthe electorateâ is defined as those persons entitled to vote in the referendum, as defined in section 2;
   (b)     the turnout figure is to be calculated on the basis that 100% turnout is defined as the total number of individuals who are entitled to vote in the referendum, as defined in section 2; and
   	
  (c)   âvoteâ is defined as votes counted under Part 1 of this Act.â
  
  
  Both of these amendments relate to making the referendum on using the "alternative vote" system for electing MPs non-binding on the Government if less than 40% of the electorate took part. 
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/parliamentaryvotingsystemandconstituencies.html Parliament's webpage on the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldbills/044/11044.1-7.html#jNC19 Clause 5 of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill as at the time of the vote]
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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