Recall of Elected Representatives — Power for Voters to Prompt New Election Before Term of Office Ends — 4 Dec 2013 at 13:34
The majority of MPs voted for voters to be able to recall their elected representatives in specified circumstances. In other words to enable voters to require another election to be held part-way through an elected representative's term of office.
The motion supported by the majority of MPs voting was:
- That leave be given to bring in a Bill to permit voters to recall their elected representatives in specified circumstances; and for connected purposes.
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 (Aye) | Minority (No) | Both | Turnout |
Con | 67 (+1 tell) | 10 (+2 tell) | 0 | 26.2% |
DUP | 6 | 0 | 0 | 75.0% |
Green | 0 (+1 tell) | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Independent | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 25 | 6 | 0 | 12.0% |
LDem | 18 | 0 | 0 | 32.1% |
PC | 2 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
SDLP | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66.7% |
SNP | 5 | 0 | 0 | 83.3% |
Total: | 127 | 17 | 0 | 23.1% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by name
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 |
Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con (front bench) | no |
John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con (front bench) | no |
Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | tellno |
Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | Lab (minister) | no |
Douglas Carswell | Clacton | Con | tellno |
David Davies | Monmouth | Con (front bench) | no |
Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | no |
Frank Dobson | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab | no |
Brian H Donohoe | Central Ayrshire | Lab | no |
Richard Drax | South Dorset | Con (front bench) | no |
James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con (front bench) | no |
Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab (minister) | no |
Elfyn Llwyd | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | no |
Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con (front bench) | no |
Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | no |
Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con (front bench) | no |
Chris Williamson | Derby North | Lab (minister) | no |