Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Report (1st Day)
4:15 pm
Lord Wallace of Tankerness (Advocate General for Scotland; Liberal Democrat)
It would be rash to predict the turnout, but I think I am right in saying that 84 per cent of the United Kingdom electorate will be engaged in an election as well as in the referendum. That gives every opportunity for the turnout to be higher as a result, and it is perhaps more likely to be better in all parts of the United Kingdom than if no election was being held at all that day, when there would very much be a doubt as to the turnout in different parts.