Directly Elected Mayor for the West Midlands Combined Authority Area — 14 Sep 2016 at 15:17

Sylvia Hermon MP, North Down voted in favour of introducing a directly elected mayor for the West Midlands Combined Authority, which covers the local government areas of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

The majority MPs voted in favour of introducing a directly elected mayor for the West Midlands Combined Authority, which covers the local government areas of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

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

The Order provides that the area of the Combined Authority is to have a directly elected mayor, and for the date of the first and subsequent elections to the role of mayor and the term of office[1].

The area covered by the Combined Authority is set out in the Draft West Midlands Combined Authority Agreement[2].

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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
Con279 (+2 tell) 0085.4%
DUP6 0075.0%
Independent1 0033.3%
Lab0 3 (+2 tell)02.2%
LDem2 0025.0%
UKIP1 00100.0%
UUP1 0050.0%
Total:290 3051.0%

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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NameConstituencyPartyVote
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