Toby Perkins MP, Chesterfield

How Toby Perkins voted on a more proportional system for electing MPs.

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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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Toby Perkins voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs

TheyWorkForYou has automatically calculated this MP’s stance based on all of their votes on the topic. You can browse the source data on PublicWhip.org.uk.

Key votes about a more proportional system for electing MPs:

On 20 Jan 2020: Toby Perkins was absent for a vote on Queen's Speech — Programme for Government — Proportional Representation to Elect MPs Show vote
On 20 Jul 2016: Toby Perkins was absent for a vote on Electoral Reform (Proportional Representation and Reduction of Voting Age) Show vote
On 16 Dec 2015: Toby Perkins was absent for a vote on Representation of the People (Proportional Representation) (House of Commons) Bill — Leave to Bring In Show vote
On 2 Nov 2010: Toby Perkins 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
On 12 Oct 2010: Toby Perkins 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

Vote information from PublicWhip. Last updated: 2020-01-20. Learn more about our voting records and what they mean.

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