7 September 2021 · Rights & Democracy
How MPs voted: Elections Bill: Keir Starmer's Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
Opposing Elections Bill at second reading
Voting Aye meant: Rejected Elections Bill in its current form
230voted Aye
329voted No
Defeated
by 99 votes
By party
MPs who sit now. The totals above are the official count.
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| Labour | 116 | 1 |
| Conservative | 0 | 81 |
| Labour (Co-op) | 16 | 0 |
| Liberal Democrat | 11 | 0 |
| Scottish National Party | 5 | 0 |
| Reform UK | 0 | 4 |
| Democratic Unionist Party | 0 | 3 |
| Plaid Cymru | 2 | 0 |
| Your Party | 2 | 0 |
| Independent | 1 | 0 |
How each MP voted
242 of 559 recorded votes were cast by MPs who still sit, listed here. MPs who did not vote are not shown: an absence can mean a pair, ministerial duty, illness or a deliberate abstention, and the data cannot tell those apart.
Aye (153)
- Rosie Duffield — Independent, Canterbury
- Afzal Khan — Labour, Manchester Rusholme
- Alex Davies-Jones — Labour, Pontypridd
- Alison McGovern — Labour, Birkenhead
- Andy McDonald — Labour, Middlesbrough and Thornaby East
- Andy Slaughter — Labour, Hammersmith and Chiswick
- Angela Rayner — Labour, Ashton-under-Lyne
- Anna McMorrin — Labour, Cardiff North
- Apsana Begum — Labour, Poplar and Limehouse
- Bambos Charalambous — Labour, Southgate and Wood Green
- Barry Gardiner — Labour, Brent West
- Bell Ribeiro-Addy — Labour, Clapham and Brixton Hill
- Bill Esterson — Labour, Sefton Central
- Bridget Phillipson — Labour, Houghton and Sunderland South
- Carolyn Harris — Labour, Neath and Swansea East
- Cat Smith — Labour, Lancaster and Wyre
- Catherine West — Labour, Hornsey and Friern Barnet
- Charlotte Nichols — Labour, Warrington North
- Chris Elmore — Labour, Bridgend
- Clive Efford — Labour, Eltham and Chislehurst
- Clive Lewis — Labour, Norwich South
- Dame Angela Eagle — Labour, Wallasey
- Dame Chi Onwurah — Labour, Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West
- Dame Nia Griffith — Labour, Llanelli
- Dame Siobhain McDonagh — Labour, Mitcham and Morden
- Dan Carden — Labour, Liverpool Walton
- Dan Jarvis — Labour, Barnsley North
- Daniel Zeichner — Labour, Cambridge
- Darren Jones — Labour, Bristol North West
- Dawn Butler — Labour, Brent East
- Debbie Abrahams — Labour, Oldham East and Saddleworth
- Dr Rosena Allin-Khan — Labour, Tooting
- Dr Rupa Huq — Labour, Ealing Central and Acton
- Ed Miliband — Labour, Doncaster North
- Emily Thornberry — Labour, Islington South and Finsbury
- Emma Hardy — Labour, Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice
- Emma Lewell — Labour, South Shields
- Fabian Hamilton — Labour, Leeds North East
- Feryal Clark — Labour, Enfield North
- Fleur Anderson — Labour, Putney
- Gerald Jones — Labour, Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare
- Gill Furniss — Labour, Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough
- Graham Stringer — Labour, Blackley and Middleton South
- Helen Hayes — Labour, Dulwich and West Norwood
- Hilary Benn — Labour, Leeds South
- Ian Byrne — Labour, Liverpool West Derby
- Ian Lavery — Labour, Blyth and Ashington
- Ian Murray — Labour, Edinburgh South
- Imran Hussain — Labour, Bradford East
- Jeff Smith — Labour, Manchester Withington
- Jess Phillips — Labour, Birmingham Yardley
- Jo Stevens — Labour, Cardiff East
- John Healey — Labour, Rawmarsh and Conisbrough
- John McDonnell — Labour, Hayes and Harlington
- Jon Trickett — Labour, Normanton and Hemsworth
- Judith Cummins — Labour, Bradford South
- Justin Madders — Labour, Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
- Karin Smyth — Labour, Bristol South
- Kate Osborne — Labour, Jarrow and Gateshead East
- Kerry McCarthy — Labour, Bristol East
- Kim Johnson — Labour, Liverpool Riverside
- Kim Leadbeater — Labour, Spen Valley
- Liam Byrne — Labour, Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North
- Lilian Greenwood — Labour, Nottingham South
- Liz Kendall — Labour, Leicester West
- Louise Haigh — Labour, Sheffield Heeley
- Maria Eagle — Labour, Liverpool Garston
- Marsha De Cordova — Labour, Battersea
- Mary Glindon — Labour, Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
- Mary Kelly Foy — Labour, City of Durham
- Matt Rodda — Labour, Reading Central
- Matt Western — Labour, Warwick and Leamington
- Matthew Pennycook — Labour, Greenwich and Woolwich
- Mike Kane — Labour, Wythenshawe and Sale East
- Mohammad Yasin — Labour, Bedford
- Mr Clive Betts — Labour, Sheffield South East
- Mr David Lammy — Labour, Tottenham
- Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi — Labour, Slough
- Mr Toby Perkins — Labour, Chesterfield
- Mrs Sharon Hodgson — Labour, Washington and Gateshead South
- Ms Abena Oppong-Asare — Labour, Erith and Thamesmead
- Ms Diane Abbott — Labour, Hackney North and Stoke Newington
- Ms Marie Rimmer — Labour, St Helens South and Whiston
- Nadia Whittome — Labour, Nottingham East
- Navendu Mishra — Labour, Stockport
- Naz Shah — Labour, Bradford West
- Neil Coyle — Labour, Bermondsey and Old Southwark
- Nick Smith — Labour, Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney
- Nick Thomas-Symonds — Labour, Torfaen
- Olivia Blake — Labour, Sheffield Hallam
- Pat McFadden — Labour, Wolverhampton South East
- Peter Kyle — Labour, Hove and Portslade
- Rachel Hopkins — Labour, Luton South and South Bedfordshire
- Rachel Reeves — Labour, Leeds West and Pudsey
- Rebecca Long Bailey — Labour, Salford
- Richard Burgon — Labour, Leeds East
- Rushanara Ali — Labour, Bethnal Green and Stepney
- Ruth Cadbury — Labour, Brentford and Isleworth
- Ruth Jones — Labour, Newport West and Islwyn
- Sarah Champion — Labour, Rotherham
- Sarah Jones — Labour, Croydon West
- Shabana Mahmood — Labour, Birmingham Ladywood
- Sir Alan Campbell — Labour, Tynemouth
- Sir Keir Starmer — Labour, Holborn and St Pancras
- Sir Mark Tami — Labour, Alyn and Deeside
- Sir Stephen Timms — Labour, East Ham
- Stephanie Peacock — Labour, Barnsley South
- Stephen Kinnock — Labour, Aberafan Maesteg
- Stephen Morgan — Labour, Portsmouth South
- Taiwo Owatemi — Labour, Coventry North West
- Tonia Antoniazzi — Labour, Gower
- Tulip Siddiq — Labour, Hampstead and Highgate
- Valerie Vaz — Labour, Walsall and Bloxwich
- Vicky Foxcroft — Labour, Lewisham North
- Wes Streeting — Labour, Ilford North
- Yasmin Qureshi — Labour, Bolton South and Walkden
- Yvette Cooper — Labour, Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
- Alex Norris — Labour (Co-op), Nottingham North and Kimberley
- Alex Sobel — Labour (Co-op), Leeds Central and Headingley
- Anneliese Dodds — Labour (Co-op), Oxford East
- Chris Evans — Labour (Co-op), Caerphilly
- Dame Meg Hillier — Labour (Co-op), Hackney South and Shoreditch
- Gareth Thomas — Labour (Co-op), Harrow West
- James Murray — Labour (Co-op), Ealing North
- Jim McMahon — Labour (Co-op), Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton
- Jonathan Reynolds — Labour (Co-op), Stalybridge and Hyde
- Ms Stella Creasy — Labour (Co-op), Walthamstow
- Preet Kaur Gill — Labour (Co-op), Birmingham Edgbaston
- Rachael Maskell — Labour (Co-op), York Central
- Seema Malhotra — Labour (Co-op), Feltham and Heston
- Sir Mark Hendrick — Labour (Co-op), Preston
- Stephen Doughty — Labour (Co-op), Cardiff South and Penarth
- Steve Reed — Labour (Co-op), Streatham and Croydon North
- Christine Jardine — Liberal Democrat, Edinburgh West
- Daisy Cooper — Liberal Democrat, St Albans
- Ed Davey — Liberal Democrat, Kingston and Surbiton
- Jamie Stone — Liberal Democrat, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
- Layla Moran — Liberal Democrat, Oxford West and Abingdon
- Mr Alistair Carmichael — Liberal Democrat, Orkney and Shetland
- Munira Wilson — Liberal Democrat, Twickenham
- Sarah Green — Liberal Democrat, Chesham and Amersham
- Sarah Olney — Liberal Democrat, Richmond Park
- Tim Farron — Liberal Democrat, Westmorland and Lonsdale
- Wera Hobhouse — Liberal Democrat, Bath
- Ben Lake — Plaid Cymru, Ceredigion Preseli
- Liz Saville Roberts — Plaid Cymru, Dwyfor Meirionnydd
- Brendan O'Hara — Scottish National Party, Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber
- Chris Law — Scottish National Party, Dundee Central
- Dave Doogan — Scottish National Party, Angus and Perthshire Glens
- Kirsty Blackman — Scottish National Party, Aberdeen North
- Pete Wishart — Scottish National Party, Perth and Kinross-shire
- Jeremy Corbyn — Your Party, Islington North
- Zarah Sultana — Your Party, Coventry South
No (89)
- Alan Mak — Conservative, Havant
- Alberto Costa — Conservative, South Leicestershire
- Alex Burghart — Conservative, Brentwood and Ongar
- Alicia Kearns — Conservative, Rutland and Stamford
- Andrew Bowie — Conservative, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
- Andrew Griffith — Conservative, Arundel and South Downs
- Bob Blackman — Conservative, Harrow East
- Caroline Nokes — Conservative, Romsey and Southampton North
- Chris Philp — Conservative, Croydon South
- Claire Coutinho — Conservative, East Surrey
- Dame Harriett Baldwin — Conservative, West Worcestershire
- Dame Karen Bradley — Conservative, Staffordshire Moorlands
- David Davis — Conservative, Goole and Pocklington
- David Mundell — Conservative, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
- David Simmonds — Conservative, Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
- Dr Andrew Murrison — Conservative, South West Wiltshire
- Dr Ben Spencer — Conservative, Runnymede and Weybridge
- Dr Caroline Johnson — Conservative, Sleaford and North Hykeham
- Dr Kieran Mullan — Conservative, Bexhill and Battle
- Dr Luke Evans — Conservative, Hinckley and Bosworth
- Dr Neil Hudson — Conservative, Epping Forest
- Edward Argar — Conservative, Melton and Syston
- Esther McVey — Conservative, Tatton
- Gareth Bacon — Conservative, Orpington
- Gareth Davies — Conservative, Grantham and Bourne
- George Freeman — Conservative, Mid Norfolk
- Graham Stuart — Conservative, Beverley and Holderness
- Greg Smith — Conservative, Mid Buckinghamshire
- Helen Grant — Conservative, Maidstone and Malling
- Helen Whately — Conservative, Faversham and Mid Kent
- James Cartlidge — Conservative, South Suffolk
- James Wild — Conservative, North West Norfolk
- Jerome Mayhew — Conservative, Broadland and Fakenham
- Jesse Norman — Conservative, Hereford and South Herefordshire
- John Glen — Conservative, Salisbury
- John Lamont — Conservative, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
- Joy Morrissey — Conservative, Beaconsfield
- Julia Lopez — Conservative, Hornchurch and Upminster
- Kevin Hollinrake — Conservative, Thirsk and Malton
- Kit Malthouse — Conservative, North West Hampshire
- Laura Trott — Conservative, Sevenoaks
- Mark Garnier — Conservative, Wyre Forest
- Martin Vickers — Conservative, Brigg and Immingham
- Matt Vickers — Conservative, Stockton West
- Mike Wood — Conservative, Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
- Mims Davies — Conservative, East Grinstead and Uckfield
- Mr Gagan Mohindra — Conservative, South West Hertfordshire
- Mr Mark Francois — Conservative, Rayleigh and Wickford
- Mr Richard Holden — Conservative, Basildon and Billericay
- Mrs Kemi Badenoch — Conservative, North West Essex
- Ms Nusrat Ghani — Conservative, Sussex Weald
- Neil O'Brien — Conservative, Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
- Nigel Huddleston — Conservative, Droitwich and Evesham
- Paul Holmes — Conservative, Hamble Valley
- Rebecca Harris — Conservative, Castle Point
- Richard Fuller — Conservative, North Bedfordshire
- Robbie Moore — Conservative, Keighley and Ilkley
- Saqib Bhatti — Conservative, Meriden and Solihull East
- Simon Hoare — Conservative, North Dorset
- Sir Alec Shelbrooke — Conservative, Wetherby and Easingwold
- Sir Andrew Mitchell — Conservative, Sutton Coldfield
- Sir Bernard Jenkin — Conservative, Harwich and North Essex
- Sir Christopher Chope — Conservative, Christchurch
- Sir Desmond Swayne — Conservative, New Forest West
- Sir Gavin Williamson — Conservative, Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge
- Sir Geoffrey Cox — Conservative, Torridge and Tavistock
- Sir Iain Duncan Smith — Conservative, Chingford and Woodford Green
- Sir James Cleverly — Conservative, Braintree
- Sir Jeremy Hunt — Conservative, Godalming and Ash
- Sir Jeremy Wright — Conservative, Kenilworth and Southam
- Sir John Hayes — Conservative, South Holland and The Deepings
- Sir John Whittingdale — Conservative, Maldon
- Sir Julian Lewis — Conservative, New Forest East
- Sir Julian Smith — Conservative, Skipton and Ripon
- Sir Mel Stride — Conservative, Central Devon
- Sir Roger Gale — Conservative, Herne Bay and Sandwich
- Steve Barclay — Conservative, North East Cambridgeshire
- Stuart Andrew — Conservative, Daventry
- Tom Tugendhat — Conservative, Tonbridge
- Victoria Atkins — Conservative, Louth and Horncastle
- Wendy Morton — Conservative, Aldridge-Brownhills
- Jim Shannon — Democratic Unionist Party, Strangford
- Mr Gregory Campbell — Democratic Unionist Party, East Londonderry
- Sammy Wilson — Democratic Unionist Party, East Antrim
- Christian Wakeford — Labour, Bury South
- Andrew Rosindell — Reform UK, Romford
- Danny Kruger — Reform UK, East Wiltshire
- Lee Anderson — Reform UK, Ashfield
- Robert Jenrick — Reform UK, Newark
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Source: division 60 on votes.parliament.uk ↗. The plain-English summary is ours.