ACCEPTED BY LABOUR
ELECTORAL REFORM BILL OTIIEB PEOVISIONS
(British Official Wireless.) (Received- 19th December, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 18th December. The national executive of the Labour Party yesterday approved of theinclusion of the alternative vote in. the forthcoming Electoral Eeform Bill, in addition to points laid out in the Labour programme of electoral reform as approved by the recent annual party conference. These include a reduction of election expenses, the publication of accounts by-political parties, the prohibition of the use of motor-ears at elections, except for sick and infirm, persons, the abolition of plural voting, and universal qualification, the division of. double-membered constituencies, into two single member constituencies, and a reduction in the costs of election petitions. By 133 votes to 20 a joint meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party National Executive and Labour peers to-day approved the text of the Electoral Reform Bill, including the alternative vote.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 147, 19 December 1930, Page 11
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147ACCEPTED BY LABOUR Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 147, 19 December 1930, Page 11
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