Opposition Day — Badger Cull — 5 Jun 2013 at 15:50

Martin Horwood MP, Cheltenham voted against the proposed badger cull.

The majority of MPs voted for the proposed badger cull.

The motion rejected by the majority of MPs was:

  • That this House
  • believes the badger cull should not go ahead.

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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
Con260 (+1 tell) 6187.9%
DUP6 0075.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent0 1050.0%
Lab0 229 (+2 tell)089.5%
LDem30 (+1 tell) 9071.4%
PC2 0066.7%
SDLP0 2066.7%
Total:298 248186.6%

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 BottomleyWorthing WestCon (front bench)aye
Tracey CrouchChatham and AylesfordConaye
Zac GoldsmithRichmond ParkCon (front bench)aye
Jason McCartneyColne ValleyConaye
Stephen McPartlandStevenageConaye
Mark RecklessRochester and StroodCon (front bench)aye
Stephen PhillipsSleaford and North HykehamCon (front bench)both
Gordon BirtwistleBurnleyLDemaye
Paul BurstowSutton and CheamLDemaye
John HemmingBirmingham, YardleyLDem (front bench)aye
Martin HorwoodCheltenhamLDemaye
Stephen LloydEastbourneLDem (front bench)aye
John PughSouthportLDem (front bench)aye
Bob RussellColchesterLDem (front bench)aye
Adrian SandersTorbayLDem (front bench)aye
Stephen WilliamsBristol WestLDem (front bench)aye

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