Hunting Bill — 20 Dec 2000

Mr John Burnett MP, Torridge and West Devon voted in the minority (No).

Aye voters supported the second reading of the Hunting Bill, as proposed by the Government. The Bill was an "options Bill", containing three different options, to allow hunting to continue under self-supervision or under licence or to ban it. MPs would vote between these options at a later date.

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Party Summary

Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.

What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.

What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.

What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.

PartyMajority (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Con8 137 (+2 tell)091.9%
Ind0 1050.0%
Lab343 (+2 tell) 3083.7%
LDem22 12072.3%
PC0 3075.0%
UUP0 2022.2%
Total:373 158083.9%

Rebel Voters - sorted by party

MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division

Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Mr David AmessSouthend WestConaye
Mr David AtkinsonBournemouth EastConaye
Mr Stephen DayCheadleConaye
Mr Roger GaleNorth ThanetConaye
Mr Richard OttawayCroydon SouthConaye
Mr John RandallUxbridgeConaye
Mr Teddy TaylorRochford and Southend EastConaye
Miss Ann WiddecombeMaidstone and The WealdConaye
Mrs Llin GoldingNewcastle-under-LymeLabno
Ms Kate HoeyVauxhallLab (minister)no
Mr Peter Temple-MorrisLeominsterwhilst Labno
Mr Alan BeithBerwick-upon-TweedLDemno
Mr Malcolm BruceGordonLDemno
Mr John BurnettTorridge and West DevonLDemno
Mr Menzies CampbellNorth East FifeLDemno
Mr Nick HarveyNorth DevonLDemno
Mr Paul KeetchHerefordLDemno
Mr Archy KirkwoodRoxburgh and BerwickshireLDemno
Mr Richard LivseyBrecon and RadnorshireLDemno
Mr Michael MooreTweeddale, Ettrick and LauderdaleLDemno
Mr Mark OatenWinchesterLDemno
Mr Lembit ÖpikMontgomeryshireLDemno
Sir Robert SmithWest Aberdeenshire and KincardineLDemno

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