European Union Referendum Bill — Third Reading — 7 Sep 2015 at 24:28
The majority of MPs voted for a referendum to be held on whether the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union.
MPs were considering the European Union Referendum Bill.[1]
The Bill provided for a referendum to be held before 31 December 2017 and set the question for the referendum as being:
- “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?”
The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
- That the Bill be now read the Third time.
The support of the majority of MPs meant this Bill could continue on the path towards becoming law.
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 | 285 (+2 tell) | 0 | 0 | 87.0% |
| DUP | 7 | 0 | 0 | 87.5% |
| Green | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 20 | 1 | 0 | 9.1% |
| LDem | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| SNP | 0 | 52 (+2 tell) | 0 | 96.4% |
| UUP | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 316 | 53 | 0 | 58.5% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by constituency
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
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | no |