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Elections: Voting Systems

Debate between Lord Campbell of Alloway and Lord Alton of Liverpool
Tuesday 5th October 2010

(14 years, 2 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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My Lords, will the Minister confirm that the reason why the Government supported the introduction of the single transferable vote system in Northern Ireland was its fairness? Why is a proportional system—rather than AV, which is not proportional—not one of the options available in the referendum questions that will be put to the public when we come to decide on this issue? Will the Minister also explain why he and his noble friends have abandoned their traditional commitment to the single transferable vote?

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