Steve Rotheram

Mayor of Liverpool City Region

Former Labour MP for Liverpool, Walton

@Steve4LCRmayor

Proportional Representation When Electing MPs

There have been votes in Parliament on if the system used to elect MPs to the House of Commons should change to a one where the proportion of seats won by a political party better reflects the proportion of the vote they win.

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Steve Rotheram has never voted in a major vote about a more proportional system for electing MPs

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Major votes

  • On 20 Jul 2016: Steve Rotheram was absent for a vote on Electoral Reform (Proportional Representation and Reduction of Voting Age) Show vote
  • On 16 Dec 2015: Steve Rotheram was absent for a vote on Representation of the People (Proportional Representation) (House of Commons) Bill — Leave to Bring In Show vote
  • On 12 Oct 2010: Steve Rotheram was absent for a vote on Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Part 3 — Question for referendum on the system for electing MPs Show vote

Minor votes

  • On 2 Nov 2010: Steve Rotheram voted against only automatically acting on the outcome of the referendum on introducing the alternative vote system for electing MPs if at least forty per cent of electors entitled to vote did so. Show vote

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