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  Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill - Voting Areas for AV Referendum
  
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  @ MP voted aye to use parliamentary constituencies as voting areas for the referendum on moving to the alternative vote system for electing MPs.
  
  @ MP voted no against using parliamentary constituencies as voting areas for the referendum on moving to the alternative vote system for electing MPs.
  
  The majority of members of the House of Lords voted against a proposal to use parliamentary constituencies as voting areas for the referendum on moving to the alternative vote system for electing MPs.
  
  :The House of Lords was considering the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill[1]. The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 40B: Clause 7, page 5, line 37, leave out subsection (2) and insert-
  : "( ) A Westminister parliamentary constituency, as it exists on the day of the referendum, is a "voting area" for the purposes of this Part."
  
  This is a simplification of the original text of Clause 7(2) stated[2]: Each of the following, as it exists on the day of the referendum, is a âvoting areaâ for the purposes of this Part:
  
  *(a)   a district in England for which there is a district council;
  	
  
  *(b)   a county in England in which there are no districts with councils;
  	
  
  *(c)   a London borough;
  	
  
  *(d)   the City of London (including the Inner and Middle Temples);
  	
  
  *(e)   the Isles of Scilly;
  	
  
  *(f)   a constituency for the National Assembly for Wales;
  	
  
  *(g)   a constituency for the Scottish Parliament;
  	
  
  *(h)   Northern Ireland.
  
  
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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/026/11026.i-ii.html Version of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill as at the time of the vote]
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