The majority of MPs voted for regular general elections every five years, with some exceptions allowing early elections.
The majority of MPs voted for the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill[1] to be read a second time; ie. for it to continue its progress to becoming law.
The Bill, as it stood at the time of this vote, sets the next general election date as the 7th of May 2015. Thereafter general elections would be held every five years. There are provisions for an earlier election in the event of no government being able to maintain the confidence of the House of Commons or if a two thirds majority (a "supermajority") of MPs agree to an election.
The Prime Minister is given power to vary the precise date of the election by up to two months.
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Guto Bebb | Aberconwy | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Shepherd | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | no |
| Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Reid | Argyll and Bute | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Herbert | Arundel and South Downs | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Lidington | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tony Baldry | Banbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Maria Miller | Basingstoke | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Don Foster | Bath | LDem | aye |
| Jane Ellison | Battersea | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dominic Grieve | Beaconsfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Stewart | Beckenham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Fuller | Bedford | Con | aye |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Hughes | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Moore | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gregory Barker | Bexhill and Battle | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Evennett | Bexleyheath and Crayford | Con | aye |
| John Hemming | Birmingham, Yardley | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Maynard | Blackpool North and Cleveleys | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Gibb | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | no |
| Mark Simmonds | Boston and Skegness | Con | aye |
| Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con | aye |
| Conor Burns | Bournemouth West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Phillip Lee | Bracknell | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Ward | Bradford East | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Brooks Newmark | Braintree | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Roger Williams | Brecon and Radnorshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah Teather | Brent Central | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Eric Pickles | Brentwood and Ongar | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater and West Somerset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | aye |
| Charlotte Leslie | Bristol North West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Neill | Bromley and Chislehurst | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sajid Javid | Bromsgrove | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gordon Birtwistle | Burnley | LDem | aye |
| Andrew Griffiths | Burton | Con | aye |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | no |
| George Eustice | Camborne and Redruth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Brazier | Canterbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jonathan Evans | Cardiff North | Con | aye |
| John Stevenson | Carlisle | Con | aye |
| Simon Hart | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem | aye |
| Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mel Stride | Central Devon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Daniel Poulter | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Con | aye |
| Mark Williams | Ceredigion | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Dorrell | Charnwood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tracey Crouch | Chatham and Aylesford | Con | aye |
| Mark Hunter | Cheadle | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Burns | Chelmsford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Hands | Chelsea and Fulham | Con | aye |
| Martin Horwood | Cheltenham | LDem | aye |
| Dame Cheryl Gillan | Chesham and Amersham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Duncan Hames | Chippenham | LDem | aye |
| Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Douglas Carswell | Clacton | Con | no |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con | aye |
| David Jones | Clwyd West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Russell | Colchester | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | aye |
| Fiona Bruce | Congleton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Louise Mensch | Corby | Con | aye |
| Geoffrey Robinson | Coventry North West | Lab | no |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Edward Timpson | Crewe and Nantwich | Con | aye |
| Gavin Barwell | Croydon Central | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Ottaway | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gareth Johnson | Dartford | Con | aye |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Daventry | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick McLoughlin | Derbyshire Dales | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Claire Perry | Devizes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Simon Reevell | Dewsbury | Con | aye |
| Charlie Elphicke | Dover | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Mundell | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Angie Bray | Ealing Central and Acton | Con | aye |
| Steve Pound | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | no |
| Hugo Swire | East Devon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire | LDem | aye |
| Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sam Gyimah | East Surrey | Con | aye |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Christopher Huhne | Eastleigh | LDem | aye |
| Michael Crockart | Edinburgh West | LDem | aye |
| Alec Shelbrooke | Elmet and Rothwell | Con | aye |
| Nick de Bois | Enfield North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Burrowes | Enfield, Southgate | Con | aye |
| Eleanor Laing | Epping Forest | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Grayling | Epsom and Ewell | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jessica Lee | Erewash | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dominic Raab | Esher and Walton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Hoban | Fareham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Hugh Robertson | Faversham and Mid Kent | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Damian Collins | Folkestone and Hythe | Con | aye |
| Mark Harper | Forest of Dean | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Menzies | Fylde | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Rehman Chishti | Gillingham and Rainham | Con | aye |
| Tom Harris | Glasgow South | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Malcolm Bruce | Gordon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Caroline Dinenage | Gosport | Con | aye |
| Nicholas Boles | Grantham and Stamford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Austin Mitchell | Great Grimsby | Lab (minister) | no |
| Brandon Lewis | Great Yarmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Anne Milton | Guildford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Morris | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Halfon | Harlow | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | no |
| Amber Rudd | Hastings and Rye | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Willetts | Havant | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Stunell | Hazel Grove | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Matthew Offord | Hendon | Con | aye |
| John Howell | Henley | Con | aye |
| James Clappison | Hertsmere | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Guy Opperman | Hexham | Con | aye |
| Andrew Bingham | High Peak | Con | aye |
| Peter Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con | aye |
| Angela Watkinson | Hornchurch and Upminster | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lynne Featherstone | Hornsey and Wood Green | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Francis Maude | Horsham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lee Scott | Ilford North | Con | aye |
| Danny Alexander | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Ben Gummer | Ipswich | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kris Hopkins | Keighley | Con | aye |
| Jeremy Wright | Kenilworth and Southam | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Malcolm Rifkind | Kensington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | no |
| Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Eric Ollerenshaw | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Mulholland | Leeds North West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Norman Baker | Lewes | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Karl McCartney | Lincoln | Con | aye |
| Michael Connarty | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Lab (minister) | no |
| Nicky Morgan | Loughborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Dunne | Ludlow | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gavin Shuker | Luton South | Lab | no |
| David Rutley | Macclesfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Theresa May | Maidenhead | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Helen Grant | Maidstone and The Weald | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Leech | Manchester, Withington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| George Hollingbery | Meon Valley | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Caroline Spelman | Meriden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dai Havard | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | no |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Annette Brooke | Mid Dorset and North Poole | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| George Freeman | Mid Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nicholas Soames | Mid Sussex | Con | aye |
| Peter Luff | Mid Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Lancaster | Milton Keynes North | Con | aye |
| Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Davies | Monmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Glyn Davies | Montgomeryshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Morris | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con | aye |
| Patrick Mercer | Newark | Con | aye |
| Richard Benyon | Newbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Anne Marie Morris | Newton Abbot | Con | aye |
| Ian Paisley Jnr | North Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Dan Rogerson | North Cornwall | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Harvey | North Devon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Alistair Burt | North East Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Steve Barclay | North East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Menzies Campbell | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | tellaye |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk | LDem (front bench) | tellaye |
| Owen Paterson | North Shropshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Liam Fox | North Somerset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con | aye |
| Roger Gale | North Thanet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Dan Byles | North Warwickshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| George Young | North West Hampshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Bridgen | North West Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Henry Bellingham | North West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Leslie | Nottingham East | Lab | no |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Marcus Jones | Nuneaton | Con | aye |
| James Brokenshire | Old Bexley and Sidcup | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jo Johnson | Orpington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nicola Blackwood | Oxford West and Abingdon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Stephenson | Pendle | Con | aye |
| Rory Stewart | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stewart Jackson | Peterborough | Con | aye |
| Oliver Colvile | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Owen Smith | Pontypridd | Lab (minister) | no |
| Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Penny Mordaunt | Portsmouth North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mike Hancock | Portsmouth South | whilst LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Crabb | Preseli Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stuart Andrew | Pudsey | Con | aye |
| Justine Greening | Putney | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh and Wickford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Rob Wilson | Reading East | Con | aye |
| Alok Sharma | Reading West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ian Swales | Redcar | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Karen Lumley | Redditch | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con (front bench) | aye |
| William Hague | Richmond (Yorks) | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Zac Goldsmith | Richmond Park | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Reckless | Rochester and Strood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Caroline Nokes | Romsey and Southampton North | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Kennedy | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | LDem | aye |
| Mark Pawsey | Rugby | Con | aye |
| Nick Hurd | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Hammond | Runnymede and Weybridge | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Kenneth Clarke | Rushcliffe | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alan Duncan | Rutland and Melton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Glen | Salisbury | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Fallon | Sevenoaks | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nick Clegg | Sheffield, Hallam | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Spencer | Sherwood | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gordon Henderson | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lorely Burt | Solihull | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Heath | Somerton and Frome | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| William McCrea | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Metcalfe | South Basildon and East Thurrock | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Lansley | South Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Heather Wheeler | South Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Drax | South Dorset | Con | aye |
| James Paice | South East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sheryll Murray | South East Cornwall | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Robathan | South Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Bacon | South Norfolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrea Leadsom | South Northamptonshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Lorraine Fullbrook | South Ribble | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tim Yeo | South Suffolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Buckland | South Swindon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Laura Sandys | South Thanet | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con | aye |
| David Gauke | South West Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Elizabeth Truss | South West Norfolk | Con | aye |
| Jeremy Hunt | South West Surrey | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire | Con | aye |
| Sir David Amess | Southend West | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Pugh | Southport | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Kwasi Kwarteng | Spelthorne | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Anne Main | St Albans | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Gilbert | St Austell and Newquay | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew George | St Ives | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jeremy Lefroy | Stafford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Karen Bradley | Staffordshire Moorlands | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen McPartland | Stevenage | Con | aye |
| James Wharton | Stockton South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | no |
| Margot James | Stourbridge | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Nadhim Zahawi | Stratford-on-Avon | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Neil Carmichael | Stroud | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Michael Gove | Surrey Heath | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Burstow | Sutton and Cheam | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Geraint Davies | Swansea West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Christopher Pincher | Tamworth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| George Osborne | Tatton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con | aye |
| Anne McIntosh | Thirsk and Malton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Steve Webb | Thornbury and Yate | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Neil Parish | Tiverton and Honiton | Con (front bench) | aye |
| John Stanley | Tonbridge and Malling | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Adrian Sanders | Torbay | LDem | aye |
| Sarah Wollaston | Totnes | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Sarah Newton | Truro and Falmouth | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Clark | Tunbridge Wells | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Vincent Cable | Twickenham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| David Simpson | Upper Bann | DUP (front bench) | aye |
| John Randall | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Alun Cairns | Vale of Glamorgan | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Ed Vaizey | Wantage | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Mowat | Warrington South | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Chris White | Warwick and Leamington | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Richard Harrington | Watford | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Charles Hendry | Wealden | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Graham Evans | Weaver Vale | Con | aye |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tessa Munt | Wells | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Grant Shapps | Welwyn Hatfield | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Robert Smith | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Oliver Letwin | West Dorset | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Matthew Hancock | West Suffolk | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Harriett Baldwin | West Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| John Penrose | Weston-Super-Mare | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con | aye |
| Steve Brine | Winchester | Con | aye |
| Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con | aye |
| Esther McVey | Wirral West | Con | aye |
| Priti Patel | Witham | Con | aye |
| Jonathan Lord | Woking | Con | aye |
| John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | aye |
| Paul Uppal | Wolverhampton South West | Con | aye |
| Robin Walker | Worcester | Con | aye |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con | aye |
| Steven Baker | Wycombe | Con | aye |
| Ben Wallace | Wyre and Preston North | Con | aye |
| Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | Con (front bench) | aye |
| David Laws | Yeovil | LDem | aye |
| Julian Sturdy | York Outer | Con (front bench) | aye |
