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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

They are also eccentric and aberrant in some ways because, if you take a four-seat ward, as we have had recently in Edinburgh, you can get a councillor of one party which managed to scrape one seat in that four-seat ward, he retires but it is the party which got the three seats which manages to get the by-election success because it is the biggest party. So it is aberrant.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
723 c967 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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