Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Clause 2 — Entitlement to vote in the referendum — 18 Oct 2010 at 20:45
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:
- (d) British citizens living outside the United Kingdom and not currently entitled to vote as electors at a parliamentary election in any constituency.
- (1A) The Minister shall, within one month of the day on which this Act is passed, by Order provide for a system of prior registration of those entitled to vote in the referendum under subsection (1)(d) above, and for mechanisms by which their votes can be cast.'
- [1] Section of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill containing page 2.
- [2] Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill as introduced
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.
| Party | Majority (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
| Alliance | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Con | 264 (+1 tell) | 14 (+2 tell) | 0 | 91.8% |
| DUP | 0 | 8 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Green | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 214 | 2 | 0 | 83.7% |
| LDem | 52 (+1 tell) | 0 | 1 | 94.7% |
| SDLP | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33.3% |
| SNP | 5 | 0 | 0 | 83.3% |
| Total: | 538 | 24 | 1 | 88.6% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by constituency
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
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con | aye |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley | Lab | aye |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | aye |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con | tellaye |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con | aye |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con | aye |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster | Con | tellaye |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem | both |
| David Davis | Haltemprice and Howden | Con | aye |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con | aye |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con | aye |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con | aye |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon | Con | aye |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con | aye |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con | aye |
| William Cash | Stone | Con | aye |
| Anne McIntosh | Thirsk and Malton | Con | aye |
| Geoffrey Cox | Torridge and West Devon | Con | aye |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con | aye |