House of Lords: Largest Votes Recorded
What have been the largest ever votes in the House of Lords? This briefing provides a list of divisions since 1999 where 500 or more Members have voted.

This House of Lords Library briefing presents data on the regional background of the House of Lords within the context of continued interest in the composition of the House of Lords.
Regional Representation in the House of Lords (382 KB, PDF)
An elected upper chamber featured as a commitment in several political party manifestos at the 2019 general election. For example, the Labour Party said it would replace the Lords with an elected senate of the nations and regions and the Conservative Party’s manifesto said it would establish a constitution, democracy and rights commission to examine a range of issues, including the role of the House of Lords. This commission may suggest further Lords reform. This briefing updates the previous edition with data from June 2019. Primarily, it presents information on the regions of Members’ registered addresses, as recorded in the expenses system. It provides a comparison with data for 2011, 2013 and 2016 to give an indication of trends in regional representation. It also looks at regions represented by former MPs and MEPs, members of the devolved legislatures and local councillors.
Of those Members who elected to have the broad location of their registered addresses (county or equivalent) included in the expenses claims data published on Parliament’s website for June 2019:
Regional Representation in the House of Lords (382 KB, PDF)
What have been the largest ever votes in the House of Lords? This briefing provides a list of divisions since 1999 where 500 or more Members have voted.
The lord speaker, along with their deputies, chairs the business of the House of Lords and has certain other procedural, ceremonial and ambassadorial functions. As a result of the resignation of the current Lord Speaker, Lord Fowler, an election for a new lord speaker will be held in April 2021.
To mark International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we take a look at how women fought for and won their right to sit in the House of Lords.