Proposed European Union Directive on Measures to Combat Terrorism — 9 Mar 2016 at 19:34

The majority of MPs voted against opting in to a European Union proposal for a directive on combating terrorism, instead supporting work directly with other countries and recognising that national security is a matter for individual nations through their sovereign Parliaments.

The motion supported by the majority of MPs taking part in this vote was:

Debate in Parliament | Source |

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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.

PartyMajority (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Con285 0086.4%
DUP7 0087.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent1 0033.3%
Lab3 170074.9%
LDem4 0050.0%
PC0 30100.0%
SDLP0 30100.0%
SNP0 40074.1%
UUP2 00100.0%
Total:302 217080.7%

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

Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Paul FlynnNewport WestLab (minister)aye
Barry SheermanHuddersfieldLabaye
Keith VazLeicester EastLab (minister)aye

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