Same Sex Marriage — Enabling Courts to Deal with Divorce or Annulment Proceedings — 5 Mar 2014 at 19:16
The majority of MPs voted to enable the courts to deal with proceedings for the divorce of, or annulment of the marriage of, a same sex couple. The majority of MPs also voted to allow the courts to make decisions in relation to the recognition of judgements in respect of a marriage made in other European Union states.
The motion approved by the majority of MPs was:
- That the draft Marriage (Same Sex Couples) (Jurisdiction and Recognition of Judgments) Regulations 2014, which were laid before this House on 23 January, be approved.
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 |
Alliance | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Con | 125 | 83 | 0 | 68.2% |
DUP | 0 | 7 | 0 | 87.5% |
Green | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Independent | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
Lab | 183 | 12 | 0 | 75.6% |
LDem | 47 | 1 | 0 | 85.7% |
PC | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Total: | 360 | 104 | 0 | 73.2% |
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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