Airport Expansion (Parliamentary Approval) — 24 Feb 2009 at 16:39
I beg to move,
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Planning Act 2008 to require parliamentary approval for proposals for the building of new major airports and additional runways at existing major airports; and for connected purposes.
Question put (Standing Order No. 23).
The House divided: Ayes 247, Noes 203.
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.
| Party | Majority (Aye) | Minority (No) | Both | Turnout |
| Con | 156 | 2 | 0 | 81.9% |
| DUP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11.1% |
| Independent | 3 | 0 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 22 (+1 tell) | 200 (+1 tell) | 1 | 64.3% |
| LDem | 57 (+1 tell) | 0 (+1 tell) | 0 | 93.7% |
| PC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66.7% |
| SNP | 5 | 0 | 0 | 71.4% |
| Total: | 246 | 203 | 1 | 71.8% |
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
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