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Voting Record — Lesley Laird MP, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (25653)

Lesley Laird is currently

Note: our records only go back to 1997 for the Commons and 2001 for the Lords (more details).

From	To	Party	Rebellions (explain...)	Attendance (explain...)	Teller
9 Jun 2017	6 Nov 2019	Lab	1 vote out of 380, 0.3%	380 votes out of 463, 82.1%	0 times

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Interesting Votes

Votes in parliament for which this MP's vote differed from the majority vote of their party (Rebel), or in which this MP was a teller (Teller), or both (Rebel Teller).

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