Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

The hon. Member for Blackley and Broughton (Graham Stringer) made a good point about some people effectively having three, four or five votes. However, is it not the case that the meaning of the word ““alternative”” is ““one of two””, from its true Latin derivation, ““alter””? My hon. Friend's amendment is therefore technically and linguistically absolutely correct. If the system is to be called the alternative vote system, the sense of ““one of two”” must come into it somewhere, not the sense of ““one of four or five””.