Results of the vote read in the House of Commons (From This Is Cheshire)

Results of the vote read in the House of Commons

8:40am Wednesday 10th February 2010 in

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Gordon Brown's plans for a referendum on changing the voting system were comfortably passed by MPs. Despite strong opposition from the Tories and some Labour backbenchers, the Commons voted 365 to 187 to ask the British public whether first-past-the-post should be scrapped in the biggest shake up of the electoral system in generations.