Electoral Registration and Administration Bill — New Clause 4 — Voters in queue outside polling station at poll closing time — 27 Jun 2012 at 17:00

Stewart Jackson MP, Peterborough voted against allowing those in a queue outside a polling station at the poll closing time to vote.

The majority of MPs voted against allowing those in a queue outside a polling station at the poll closing time to vote.

MP Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest, Conservative) moved the new clause which was rejected by the vote:

  • ‘(1) Schedule 1 to the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) (parliamentary elections rules) is amended as follows.
  • (2) In rule 37 (voting procedure) after paragraph (6) insert—
  • “(7) A voter who is in the polling station or in a queue outside the polling station for the purpose of voting at the time specified for the close of the poll shall be entitled to apply for a ballot paper under paragraph 1 above and a ballot paper shall be delivered and the voter entitled to vote in accordance with this rule.”.’.

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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
Con236 (+1 tell) 6079.4%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 197 (+2 tell)077.4%
LDem48 (+1 tell) 1087.7%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 1033.3%
SNP0 2033.3%
Total:284 211078.8%

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
Bob BlackmanHarrow EastCon (front bench)aye
Peter BottomleyWorthing WestCon (front bench)aye
Philip DaviesShipleyCon (front bench)aye
Philip HolloboneKetteringCon (front bench)aye
Eleanor LaingEpping ForestCon (front bench)aye
Bob StewartBeckenhamCon (front bench)aye
John LeechManchester, WithingtonLDem (front bench)aye

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