Elections Bill — New Clause 1 — Voting From Age 16 in Parliamentary Elections — 17 Jan 2022 at 21:00

The majority of MPs voted against lowering the voting age to 16 for UK Parliamentary elections.

MPs were considering the Elections Bill.[1][2][3]

The proposed new clause rejected in this vote was titled:Voting from age 16 in parliamentary elections and stated:

The rejected new clause was accompanied by the following statement from its proposer:

  • This new clause would lower the voting age to 16 in UK parliamentary elections.

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Debate in Parliament |

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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 (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Alba0 20100.0%
Alliance0 10100.0%
Con321 (+2 tell) 0089.2%
DUP4 0162.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Independent1 40100.0%
Lab0 173 (+2 tell)088.4%
LDem0 12092.3%
PC0 2066.7%
SDLP0 20100.0%
SNP0 39086.7%
Total:326 236188.6%

Rebel Voters - sorted by vote

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
Gavin RobinsonBelfast EastDUP (front bench)both

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