Lords Amendment — 5 Nov 2002 at 18:43
The majority voted to allow non-married couples to adopt. It did this by accepting the Commons disagreement to a previous Lords Amendment (made in the vote on 16th October 2002), by rejecting an amendment that would have insisted on the previous amendment.
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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 is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.| Party | Majority (Not-Content) | Minority (Content) | Turnout |
| Bishop | 2 | 3 | 20.0% |
| Con | 18 | 115 (+2 tell) | 61.1% |
| Crossbench | 30 | 43 | 42.7% |
| Green | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent Labour | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Independent Socialist | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 118 (+1 tell) | 17 | 69.7% |
| LDem | 42 (+1 tell) | 0 | 65.2% |
| Total: | 211 | 180 | 58.0% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.