Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — New Clause 16 — Review Civil Partnerships Following Introduction of Same-Sex Marriage — 20 May 2013 at 22:00
The majority of MPs voted for a review of the operation and future of civil partnerships following the introduction of same sex marriages.
MPs were considering the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill[1]. The proposed new clause[2] supported in this vote was New Clause 16 — Review of civil partnership which started:
- The Secretary of State must arrange for the operation and future of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 in England and Wales to be reviewed
and goes on to give details of the provision.
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 | 139 (+1 tell) | 48 (+2 tell) | 0 | 62.3% |
| DUP | 0 | 7 | 0 | 87.5% |
| Green | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 202 | 1 | 0 | 78.7% |
| LDem | 44 (+1 tell) | 0 | 0 | 78.9% |
| PC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66.7% |
| SDLP | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 391 | 57 | 0 | 71.1% |
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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