LORDS AGREE TO THE ALTERNATIVE VOTE.
(Received June 17, noon.) RUGBY, June 16
In the House of Lords to-day the Representation of the People Bill passed its second reading by 50 votes to 14. The measure provides for the method of the alternative vote at parliamentary elections, when there are more than two candidates. Lord Passfield, in moving the second reading, expressed the belief that the measure, if carried, would lead to no more than a microscopical change in the balance of party representation, and he could not guess which party, if any, it would favour, but there had been 469 three-cornered contests out of roughly 600 at the last general election, and in over 300 cases the member was returned by a minority vote. The alternative vote, he contended, would lead to fairer representation of constituents.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 142, 17 June 1931, Page 1
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