Electoral Reform (Proportional Representation and Reduction of Voting Age) — 20 Jul 2016 at 13:09
The majority of MPs voted against proportional representation for electing MPs and against reducing the voting age to 16.
The motion rejected by the majority of MPs taking part in this vote was:
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That leave be given to bring in a bill to amend the Representation of the People Acts to provide for the introduction of proportional representation as a method for electing Members of the House of Commons;
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to reduce the voting age to 16 in all UK elections and referendums; and for connected purposes.
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| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Kirsty Blackman | Aberdeen North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Callum McCaig | Aberdeen South | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Neil Gray | Airdrie and Shotts | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Gerald Howarth | Aldershot | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Weir | Angus | SNP (front bench) | tellaye |
| Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Brendan O'Hara | Argyll and Bute | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Corri Wilson | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | SNP | aye |
| Eilidh Whiteford | Banff and Buchan | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con (front bench) | no |
| John Mann | Bassetlaw | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ben Howlett | Bath | Con (front bench) | aye |
| Bob Stewart | Beckenham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Richard Fuller | Bedford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nigel Dodds | Belfast North | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Alasdair McDonnell | Belfast South | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Jess Phillips | Birmingham, Yardley | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Helen Goodman | Bishop Auckland | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graham Stringer | Blackley and Broughton | Lab (minister) | no |
| Ronnie Campbell | Blyth Valley | Lab | no |
| Dennis Skinner | Bolsover | Lab | no |
| James Cleverly | Braintree | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ian Liddell-Grainger | Bridgwater and West Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | aye |
| David Nuttall | Bury North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jo Churchill | Bury St Edmunds | Con (front bench) | no |
| Paul Monaghan | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Daniel Zeichner | Cambridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Amanda Milling | Cannock Chase | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Brake | Carshalton and Wallington | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Philippa Whitford | Central Ayrshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Tyrie | Chichester | Con (front bench) | no |
| Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con | no |
| Michelle Donelan | Chippenham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Field | Cities of London and Westminster | Con (front bench) | no |
| Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con (front bench) | no |
| Phil Boswell | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | SNP | aye |
| Tom Pursglove | Corby | Con | no |
| Henry Smith | Crawley | Con | no |
| Chris Philp | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | no |
| Stuart McDonald | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Jon Cruddas | Dagenham and Rainham | Lab | aye |
| Gareth Johnson | Dartford | Con | no |
| Amanda Solloway | Derby North | Con (front bench) | no |
| Charlie Elphicke | Dover | Con | no |
| Mike Wood | Dudley South | Con | no |
| Helen Hayes | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Douglas Chapman | Dunfermline and West Fife | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Liz Saville-Roberts | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | aye |
| Sammy Wilson | East Antrim | DUP (front bench) | no |
| John Nicolson | East Dunbartonshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Lisa Cameron | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| George Kerevan | East Lothian | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Kirsten Oswald | East Renfrewshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Mims Davies | Eastleigh | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tommy Sheppard | Edinburgh East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Deidre Brock | Edinburgh North and Leith | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Michelle Thomson | Edinburgh West | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
| John McNally | Falkirk | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Tom Elliott | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | UUP | no |
| Jack Lopresti | Filton and Bradley Stoke | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Durkan | Foyle | SDLP | aye |
| Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alison Thewliss | Glasgow Central | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Patrick Grady | Glasgow North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Anne McLaughlin | Glasgow North East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Carol Monaghan | Glasgow North West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Stewart McDonald | Glasgow South | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Chris Stephens | Glasgow South West | SNP | aye |
| Peter Grant | Glenrothes | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Alex Salmond | Gordon | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Byron Davies | Gower | Con (front bench) | no |
| Adam Holloway | Gravesham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alan Mak | Havant | Con (front bench) | no |
| William Wragg | Hazel Grove | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jeremy Quin | Horsham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Wes Streeting | Ilford North | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Ronnie Cowan | Inverclyde | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Drew Hendry | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Andrew Turner | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | no |
| Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | no |
| Alan Brown | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | SNP | aye |
| Roger Mullin | Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Greg Mulholland | Leeds North West | LDem | aye |
| John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | no |
| Karl McCartney | Lincoln | Con (front bench) | no |
| Martyn Day | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Twigg | Liverpool, West Derby | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Hannah Bardell | Livingston | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| John Whittingdale | Maldon | Con | no |
| Alan Meale | Mansfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Pauline Latham | Mid Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Michael Tomlinson | Mid Dorset and North Poole | Con | no |
| Nigel Huddleston | Mid Worcestershire | Con | no |
| Owen Thompson | Midlothian | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Angus Robertson | Moray | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Andrea Jenkyns | Morley and Outwood | Con (front bench) | no |
| Marion Fellows | Motherwell and Wishaw | SNP (front bench) | tellaye |
| Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Julian Lewis | New Forest East | Con (front bench) | no |
| Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con | no |
| Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | Lab (minister) | no |
| Patricia Gibson | North Ayrshire and Arran | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Stephen Gethins | North East Fife | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Ranil Jayawardena | North East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Norman Lamb | North Norfolk | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con | no |
| Pat Glass | North West Durham | Lab | aye |
| Clive Lewis | Norwich South | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Graham Allen | Nottingham North | Lab | aye |
| Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| Gavin Newlands | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Mhairi Black | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Mark Francois | Rayleigh and Wickford | Con | no |
| Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con (front bench) | no |
| Nigel Evans | Ribble Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Rosindell | Romford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Ian Blackford | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Margaret Ferrier | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
| Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | no |
| Daniel Kawczynski | Shrewsbury and Atcham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Gordon Henderson | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Con | no |
| Stephen Phillips | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Danny Kinahan | South Antrim | UUP (front bench) | no |
| Margaret Ritchie | South Down | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
| Alberto Costa | South Leicestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Craig Mackinlay | South Thanet | Con (front bench) | no |
| Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con | no |
| Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | no |
| Royston Smith | Southampton, Itchen | Con | no |
| Anne Main | St Albans | Con (front bench) | no |
| Steve Double | St Austell and Newquay | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Steven Paterson | Stirling | SNP | aye |
| Paul Scully | Sutton and Cheam | Con (front bench) | no |
| Lucy Allan | Telford | Con (front bench) | no |
| Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
| Mark Pritchard | The Wrekin | Con (front bench) | no |
| Luke Hall | Thornbury and Yate | Con (front bench) | no |
| David Simpson | Upper Bann | DUP (front bench) | no |
| Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab (minister) | aye |
| John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | tellno |
| Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con (front bench) | no |
| Peter Bone | Wellingborough | Con (front bench) | tellno |
| Stuart Donaldson | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | SNP | aye |
| Martin Docherty | West Dunbartonshire | SNP | aye |
| Tim Farron | Westmorland and Lonsdale | LDem (front bench) | aye |
| John Penrose | Weston-Super-Mare | Con | no |
| Margaret Greenwood | Wirral West | Lab (minister) | aye |
| Rob Marris | Wolverhampton South West | Lab (minister) | no |
| Steven Baker | Wycombe | Con (front bench) | no |
| Julian Sturdy | York Outer | Con (front bench) | no |
