Second Delegated Legislation Committee
8 June 2026
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Second Delegated Legislation Committee House of Commons
00:02 - 00:10
Speaker 1
The draft Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2026. I call the Minister to move the motion.
00:10 - 02:55
Speaker 2
Thank you, Sir Desmond. It's a pleasure to serve with you in the chair. I beg to move that the Committee consider the draft Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2026, which was laid before the House on the 21st of May 2026. Over the course of the last year, Parliament has debated, agreed, and decided that the voting system for mayors and police and crime commissioners should be changed to use the supplementary vote system, or SV, through the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026, which received Royal Assent in April. The SV system was the system that was used when the positions of elected mayor and police and crime commissioner were first established decades ago.
The government believes it's the most appropriate voting system for single executive offices, where it is essential that an individual has a broad mandate from their electorate. The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act contains the main measures required to change the voting system used for these types of elections, and these will be commenced in due course. However, there are also a number of other changes that must be made to the election conduct rules by secondary legislation to fully enable the use of SV. For example, updating the images of ballot papers to allow a voter to select multiple preferences, updating guidance to electors, and updating the procedures used at the count, should there be a second round of vote counting. As stated during the parliamentary passage of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act, the government's intention was to implement the change to SV for any mayoral or PCC election taking place after the scheduled May elections this year.
This order has been drafted to be concise and so will only make the necessary additional amendments in order to enable SV to be used for both combined authority and combined county authority mayors, including those that exercise police and crime commissioner powers. The order will therefore not make amendments with regards to local authority mayors, the Mayor of London, or police and crime commissioner elections. Further legislation will be brought forward for those in due course. To repeat, this order will make the change to SV for any combined authority or combined county authority mayoral election for which notice is given on or after the date that this order comes into force. I would also note that as this is a reversion to the original voting system used for mayoral elections, the SV process will be familiar to both administrators and electors.
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