Establishment of Somerset West and Taunton District Council — 23 May 2018 at 19:37

Anne Marie Morris MP, Newton Abbot voted to establish Somerset West and Taunton District Council as a single tier council and to abolish the West Somerset and Taunton Deane councils from 1 April 2019.

The majority of MPs voted to establish Somerset West and Taunton District Council as a single tier council and to abolish the West Somerset and Taunton Deane councils from 1 April 2019.

The motion supported by the majority of MPs taking part in the vote, and the majority of MPs representing constituencies in England, was:

--

Debate in Parliament |

Public Whip is run as a free not-for-profit service. If you'd like to support us, please consider switching your (UK) electricity and/or gas to Octopus Energy or tip us via Ko-Fi.

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
Con289 4092.7%
DUP8 0080.0%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent1 1033.3%
Lab0 301.2%
LDem0 8066.7%
Total:298 17052.3%

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
Christopher ChopeChristchurchCon (front bench)no
Philip DaviesShipleyCon (front bench)no
Philip HolloboneKetteringCon (front bench)no
Ian Liddell-GraingerBridgwater and West SomersetCon (front bench)no

About the Project

The Public Whip is a not-for-profit, open source website created in 2003 by Francis Irving and Julian Todd and now run by Bairwell Ltd.

The Whip on the Web

Help keep PublicWhip alive