Voting Rights: Bishops

(asked on 25th July 2024) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the right of Lords Spiritual to vote in general elections.


Answered by
Baroness Twycross Portrait
Baroness Twycross
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
This question was answered on 7th August 2024

While the Lords Temporal are unable to vote at general elections to the House of Commons, this legal exclusion does not apply to the Lords Spiritual. In practice, however, it has long been the tradition that the Lords Spiritual do not vote at general elections.

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