European Union Membership — 15 Jun 2016 at 18:50

Chris Elmore MP, Ogmore voted to say the UK needs to stay in the EU.

The majority of MPs voted to say the UK needs to stay in the EU.

The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:

  • That this House
  • believes that the UK needs to stay in the EU because it offers the best framework for trade, manufacturing, employment rights and cooperation to meet the challenges the UK faces in the world in the twenty-first century; and
  • notes that tens of billions of pounds worth of investment and millions of jobs are linked to the UK’s membership of the EU, the biggest market in the world.

Debate in Parliament |

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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 (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Con74 0022.4%
Independent1 0033.3%
Lab133 (+2 tell) 0 (+2 tell)059.3%
LDem4 0050.0%
PC1 0033.3%
SDLP1 0033.3%
SNP42 0077.8%
UUP1 0050.0%
Total:257 0041.2%

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
Alan CampbellTynemouthLab (minister)tellno
Grahame MorrisEasingtonLab (minister)tellno

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