Scottish Parliament – May 25, 2017 – 1

Decision Time

Result

✅ Motion passed.

Aye: 50 MSPs

No: 27 MSPs

Absent: 52 MSPs

Parliamentary analysis

Nominal opposition: Government Aye Opposition Weak No

This vote is most similar to a group of votes where the government is proposing a motion, but opposition is less strongly opposing it (higher numbers of absences).

This can reflect different views between opposition parties - where at least one party neither wants to be on the record as voting for or against.

Annotations

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Whip reports

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Overall counts

Grouping MSPs on date Vote participant count For motion Against motion Absent motion Turnout For motion percentage
All MSPs 129 77 50 27 52 59.69% 64.94%

Government counts

Grouping MSPs on date Vote participant count For motion Against motion Absent motion Turnout For motion percentage
Government 63 43 43 0 20 68.25% 100.00%
Opposition 66 34 7 27 32 51.52% 20.59%

Party voting counts

Grouping MSPs on date Vote participant count For motion Against motion Absent motion Party turnout For motion percentage
Labour 24 6 0 6 18 25.00% 0.00%
Scottish National Party 63 43 43 0 20 68.25% 100.00%
Liberal Democrat 5 2 2 0 3 40.00% 100.00%
Conservative 31 21 0 21 10 67.74% 0.00%
Green 6 5 5 0 1 83.33% 100.00%

Voting list

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Person Party Vote Party alignment
David Stewart Labour Absent n/a
Pauline McNeill Labour Absent n/a
Ben Macpherson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Joe FitzPatrick Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Brian Whittle Conservative No 100.00%
Colin Beattie Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Ruth Maguire Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alexander Stewart Conservative No 100.00%
Annabelle Ewing Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Ivan McKee Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Murdo Fraser Conservative No 100.00%
Jeane Freeman Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Kevin Stewart Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Maree Todd Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Adam Tomkins Conservative No 100.00%
Bill Kidd Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Christina McKelvie Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Roseanna Cunningham Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Stuart McMillan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Rachael Hamilton Conservative Absent n/a
Jenny Gilruth Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Elaine Smith Labour Absent n/a
James Kelly Labour Absent n/a
Angus MacDonald Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Ross Thomson Conservative Absent n/a
Graeme Dey Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Fulton MacGregor Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Neil Findlay Labour Absent n/a
Monica Lennon Labour No 100.00%
Emma Harper Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Maurice Corry Conservative No 100.00%
Gil Paterson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Peter Chapman Conservative No 100.00%
Iain Gray Labour No 100.00%
Humza Yousaf Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alex Neil Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Michael Matheson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Clare Haughey Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Derek Mackay Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Shona Robison Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Patrick Harvie Green Aye 100.00%
Alexander Burnett Conservative No 100.00%
Neil Bibby Labour Absent n/a
Daniel Johnson Labour Absent n/a
Michael Russell Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Douglas Ross Conservative Absent n/a
Bruce Crawford Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Gillian Martin Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Joan McAlpine Scottish National Party Absent n/a
David Torrance Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Kezia Dugdale Labour Absent n/a
Johann Lamont Labour Absent n/a
Willie Rennie Liberal Democrat Absent n/a
Christine Grahame Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Mark Griffin Labour Absent n/a
Richard Leonard Labour Absent n/a
Lewis Macdonald Labour Absent n/a
Rhoda Grant Labour Absent n/a
Colin Smyth Labour Absent n/a
Maurice Golden Conservative No 100.00%
Bill Bowman Conservative No 100.00%
Jeremy Balfour Conservative No 100.00%
Jamie Hepburn Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Gordon Lindhurst Conservative No 100.00%
Bob Doris Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Oliver Mundell Conservative No 100.00%
Linda Fabiani Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Shirley-Anne Somerville Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Claudia Beamish Labour No 100.00%
Angela Constance Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Annie Wells Conservative No 100.00%
Alison Johnstone Green Aye 100.00%
George Adam Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alison Harris Conservative No 100.00%
Mary Fee Labour No 100.00%
Kenneth Macintosh Labour Absent n/a
Jenny Marra Labour Absent n/a
Ash Denham Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
John Scott Conservative No 100.00%
Richard Lochhead Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Liam McArthur Liberal Democrat Absent n/a
Elizabeth Smith Conservative Absent n/a
Ross Greer Green Absent n/a
Alex Rowley Labour Absent n/a
Mairi Gougeon Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Clare Adamson Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Tom Arthur Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Michelle Ballantyne Conservative Absent n/a
Edward Mountain Conservative Absent n/a
Donald Cameron Conservative Absent n/a
Tavish Scott Liberal Democrat Absent n/a
Keith Brown Scottish National Party Absent n/a
John Swinney Scottish National Party Absent n/a
James Dornan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Willie Coffey Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jackie Baillie Labour No 100.00%
Kate Forbes Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Fergus Ewing Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Finlay Carson Conservative No 100.00%
Fiona Hyslop Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Liam Kerr Conservative No 100.00%
Paul Wheelhouse Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Claire Baker Labour No 100.00%
Jamie Greene Conservative No 100.00%
John Finnie Green Aye 100.00%
Andy Wightman Green Aye 100.00%
Aileen Campbell Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Sandra White Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Gordon MacDonald Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Stewart Stevenson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alex Cole-Hamilton Liberal Democrat Aye 100.00%
Alasdair Allan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Dean Lockhart Conservative No 100.00%
Gail Ross Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Rona Mackay Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Richard Lyle Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
John Mason Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Margaret Mitchell Conservative No 100.00%
Mark Ruskell Green Aye 100.00%
Miles Briggs Conservative No 100.00%
Mike Rumbles Liberal Democrat Aye 100.00%
Mark McDonald Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jackson Carlaw Conservative Absent n/a
Nicola Sturgeon Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Maureen Watt Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Ruth Davidson Conservative Absent n/a
Lord Sarwar Labour Absent n/a
Graham Simpson Conservative Absent n/a
Kenneth Gibson Scottish National Party Absent n/a