Hunting Bill — 15 Sep 2004 at 17:33

The Aye voters supported the second reading of the Hunting Bill, knowing that it was identical to the Bill to which the House of Commons gave a Third Reading on 9 July 2003. (This was the criterion that would allow the Parliament Act to be used to pass the Bill.)

Question put, That the Bill be read a Second time:-

The House divided: Ayes 356, Noes 166.

Debate in Parliament | Historical Hansard | Source |

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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
Con6 137 (+2 tell)089.0%
Independent0 1050.0%
Independent Conservative0 10100.0%
Lab318 (+2 tell) 3079.6%
LDem32 16087.3%
PC0 40100.0%
UUP0 4080.0%
Total:356 166082.7%

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
Sir David AmessSouthend WestConaye
Mr David AtkinsonBournemouth EastConaye
Roger GaleNorth ThanetConaye
Mr John TaylorSolihullConaye
Mr Teddy TaylorRochford and Southend EastConaye
Ann WiddecombeMaidstone and The WealdConaye
Mark FisherStoke-on-Trent CentralLabno
Kate HoeyVauxhallLabno
Barry SheermanHuddersfieldLabno
Alan BeithBerwick-upon-TweedLDemno
Mr John BurnettTorridge and West DevonLDemno
Menzies CampbellNorth East FifeLDemno
Ms Sue DoughtyGuildfordLDemno
Mr Matthew GreenLudlowLDemno
Evan HarrisOxford West and AbingdonLDemno
Nick HarveyNorth DevonLDemno
Paul KeetchHerefordLDemno
Norman LambNorth NorfolkLDemno
Michael MooreTweeddale, Ettrick and LauderdaleLDemno
Mark OatenWinchesterLDemno
Lembit ÖpikMontgomeryshireLDemno
Robert SmithWest Aberdeenshire and KincardineLDemno
John ThursoCaithness, Sutherland and Easter RossLDemno
Mr Paul TylerNorth CornwallLDemno
Roger WilliamsBrecon and RadnorshireLDemno

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