Scottish Parliament – March 7, 2017 – 1

Business Motion

Result

✅ Motion passed.

Aye: 79 MSPs

Absent: 34 MSPs

Abstain: 16 MSPs

Parliamentary analysis

Cross party aye

This vote is most similar to a group of votes where there is a cross party consensus in favour of a motion.

There may be scattered opposition (which is why a vote is being held at all), but it does not break down clearly along government/opposition lines.

Annotations

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Whip reports

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Overall counts

Grouping MSPs on date Vote participant count For motion Against motion Neutral motion Absent motion Turnout For motion percentage
All MSPs 129 79 79 0 16 34 61.24% 100.00%

Government counts

Grouping MSPs on date Vote participant count For motion Against motion Neutral motion Absent motion Turnout For motion percentage
Government 63 55 55 0 0 8 87.30% 100.00%
Opposition 66 24 24 0 16 26 36.36% 100.00%

Party voting counts

Grouping MSPs on date Vote participant count For motion Against motion Neutral motion Absent motion Party turnout For motion percentage
Conservative 31 15 15 0 0 16 48.39% 100.00%
Green 6 6 6 0 0 0 100.00% 100.00%
Scottish National Party 63 55 55 0 0 8 87.30% 100.00%
Labour 24 0 0 0 16 8 0.00% n/a
Liberal Democrat 5 3 3 0 0 2 60.00% 100.00%

Voting list

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Person Party Vote Party alignment
James Dornan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Maurice Corry Conservative Aye 100.00%
Ben Macpherson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Bill Bowman Conservative Aye 100.00%
Graeme Dey Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Angus MacDonald Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Iain Gray Labour Abstain n/a
Finlay Carson Conservative Aye 100.00%
Kezia Dugdale Labour Abstain n/a
Ross Thomson Conservative Aye 100.00%
Pauline McNeill Labour Abstain n/a
Kevin Stewart Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
David Torrance Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alex Cole-Hamilton Liberal Democrat Aye 100.00%
Graham Simpson Conservative Aye 100.00%
Bill Kidd Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Stewart Stevenson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Gordon MacDonald Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Stuart McMillan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Mark McDonald Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Rona Mackay Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Derek Mackay Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Shona Robison Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Dean Lockhart Conservative Absent n/a
Ruth Davidson Conservative Absent n/a
Brian Whittle Conservative Absent n/a
Jenny Marra Labour Absent n/a
Kenneth Macintosh Labour Absent n/a
Richard Lochhead Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Donald Cameron Conservative Absent n/a
Oliver Mundell Conservative Absent n/a
Alexander Burnett Conservative Absent n/a
Annie Wells Conservative Absent n/a
John Lamont Conservative Absent n/a
Jeremy Balfour Conservative Aye 100.00%
Tom Arthur Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Joan McAlpine Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Michael Russell Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Gillian Martin Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Maureen Watt Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Emma Harper Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Kenneth Gibson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Aileen Campbell Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Fulton MacGregor Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Tavish Scott Liberal Democrat Aye 100.00%
Alasdair Allan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Angela Constance Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Bruce Crawford Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Ivan McKee Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Shirley-Anne Somerville Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Linda Fabiani Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Claudia Beamish Labour Abstain n/a
Ash Denham Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
John Scott Conservative Aye 100.00%
Rhoda Grant Labour Abstain n/a
Alex Rowley Labour Abstain n/a
Gail Ross Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Elizabeth Smith Conservative Aye 100.00%
Christina McKelvie Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Maurice Golden Conservative Absent n/a
Jeane Freeman Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Douglas Ross Conservative Absent n/a
Willie Coffey Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Colin Beattie Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Richard Leonard Labour Absent n/a
Kate Forbes Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Fergus Ewing Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Elaine Smith Labour Abstain n/a
Joe FitzPatrick Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Monica Lennon Labour Abstain n/a
Ruth Maguire Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alexander Stewart Conservative Aye 100.00%
Christine Grahame Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Annabelle Ewing Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Liam Kerr Conservative Aye 100.00%
Fiona Hyslop Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Bob Doris Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Paul Wheelhouse Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Humza Yousaf Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Adam Tomkins Conservative Aye 100.00%
Neil Findlay Labour Abstain n/a
Clare Haughey Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Michael Matheson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Nicola Sturgeon Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Willie Rennie Liberal Democrat Aye 100.00%
Ross Greer Green Aye 100.00%
Johann Lamont Labour Abstain n/a
Mark Griffin Labour Abstain n/a
Anas Sarwar Labour Absent n/a
Peter Chapman Conservative Absent n/a
Jamie Hepburn Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Alison Harris Conservative Absent n/a
Alex Neil Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Liam McArthur Liberal Democrat Absent n/a
Gordon Lindhurst Conservative Absent n/a
Keith Brown Scottish National Party Absent n/a
James Kelly Labour Absent n/a
Miles Briggs Conservative Absent n/a
Edward Mountain Conservative Absent n/a
Gil Paterson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jackie Baillie Labour Abstain n/a
Colin Smyth Labour Abstain n/a
Daniel Johnson Labour Abstain n/a
John Swinney Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
John Finnie Green Aye 100.00%
Andy Wightman Green Aye 100.00%
Roseanna Cunningham Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jamie Greene Conservative Aye 100.00%
Jenny Gilruth Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
George Adam Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alison Johnstone Green Aye 100.00%
Clare Adamson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Murdo Fraser Conservative Aye 100.00%
Rachael Hamilton Conservative Aye 100.00%
David Stewart Labour Abstain n/a
Maree Todd Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
John Mason Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jackson Carlaw Conservative Aye 100.00%
Richard Lyle Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Mary Fee Labour Abstain n/a
Mairi Gougeon Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Mark Ruskell Green Aye 100.00%
Patrick Harvie Green Aye 100.00%
Sandra White Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Mike Rumbles Liberal Democrat Absent n/a
Margaret Mitchell Conservative Absent n/a
Claire Baker Labour Absent n/a
Neil Bibby Labour Absent n/a
Lewis Macdonald Labour Absent n/a