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% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by name
Lords 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 lord who could have voted in this division