Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Clause 2 — Entitlement to vote in the referendum — 18 Oct 2010 at 20:45

David Davis MP, Haltemprice and Howden voted to allow British citizens living outside the United Kingdom to vote in the referendum on the electoral system for the house of commons.

The majority of MPs voted against allowing British citizens living outside the United Kingdom to vote in the referendum on the electoral system for the house of commons.

Conservative MP Graham Brady tabled the amendment to insert the following on page 2, line 19[1] of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill[2], the section of the Bill which lists who is eligible to vote:

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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 (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Alliance1 00100.0%
Con264 (+1 tell) 14 (+2 tell)091.8%
DUP0 80100.0%
Green1 00100.0%
Lab214 2083.7%
LDem52 (+1 tell) 0194.7%
SDLP1 0033.3%
SNP5 0083.3%
Total:538 24188.6%

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
Peter BoneWellingboroughCon (front bench)aye
Graham BradyAltrincham and Sale WestCon (front bench)aye
Bill CashStoneCon (front bench)aye
Geoffrey CoxTorridge and West DevonCon (front bench)aye
Philip DaviesShipleyCon (front bench)aye
David DavisHaltemprice and HowdenConaye
Mark FieldCities of London and WestminsterCon (front bench)tellaye
Philip HolloboneKetteringCon (front bench)aye
Bernard JenkinHarwich and North EssexCon (front bench)aye
Julian LewisNew Forest EastCon (front bench)aye
Anne McIntoshThirsk and MaltonCon (front bench)aye
David NuttallBury NorthCon (front bench)aye
Andrew TurnerIsle of WightCon (front bench)aye
Andrew TyrieChichesterCon (front bench)aye
Charles WalkerBroxbourneCon (front bench)tellaye
John WhittingdaleMaldonCon (front bench)aye
Ronnie CampbellBlyth ValleyLabaye
Dennis SkinnerBolsoverLabaye
Christopher HuhneEastleighLDemboth

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