Scottish Parliament – May 18, 2021 – 3

First Minister

Result

✅ Motion passed.

Aye: 64 MSPs

Absent: 65 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

No whip reports for this decision.

Overall counts

Grouping MSPs on date Vote participant count For motion Against motion Absent motion Turnout For motion percentage
All MSPs 129 64 64 0 65 49.61% 100.00%

Government counts

Grouping MSPs on date Vote participant count For motion Against motion Absent motion Turnout For motion percentage
Opposition 57 0 0 0 57 0.00% n/a
Government 72 64 64 0 8 88.89% 100.00%

Party voting counts

Grouping MSPs on date Vote participant count For motion Against motion Absent motion Party turnout For motion percentage
Scottish National Party 64 64 64 0 0 100.00% 100.00%
Labour 22 0 0 0 22 0.00% n/a
Liberal Democrat 4 0 0 0 4 0.00% n/a
Conservative 31 0 0 0 31 0.00% n/a
Green 8 0 0 0 8 0.00% n/a

Voting list

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Person Party Vote Party alignment
Siobhian Brown Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Elena Whitham Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Clare Adamson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Clare Haughey Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Ivan McKee Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jenny Gilruth Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Christina McKelvie Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Mairi Gougeon Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Maree Todd Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Emma Harper Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Willie Coffey Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
James Dornan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Ruth Maguire Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Colin Beattie Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Keith Brown Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Fergus Ewing Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Emma Roddick Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Evelyn Tweed Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Màiri McAllan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Miles Briggs Conservative Absent n/a
Donald Cameron Conservative Absent n/a
Colin Smyth Labour Absent n/a
Carol Mochan Labour Absent n/a
Alexander Burnett Conservative Absent n/a
Anas Sarwar Labour Absent n/a
Rhoda Grant Labour Absent n/a
Alex Rowley Labour Absent n/a
Jamie Greene Conservative Absent n/a
Pam Gosal Conservative Absent n/a
Meghan Gallacher Conservative Absent n/a
Pam Duncan-Glancy Labour Absent n/a
Nicola Sturgeon Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Gordon MacDonald Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
George Adam Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Angela Constance Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
David Torrance Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Richard Lochhead Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Shona Robison Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Stuart McMillan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Ash Denham Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Karen Adam Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Ben Macpherson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Humza Yousaf Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Michelle Thomson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Graeme Dey Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jackie Dunbar Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Mark Ruskell Green Absent n/a
Sharon Dowey Conservative Absent n/a
Foysol Choudhury Labour Absent n/a
Richard Leonard Labour Absent n/a
Baroness Clark Labour Absent n/a
Sarah Boyack Labour Absent n/a
Liam McArthur Liberal Democrat Absent n/a
Jamie Halcro Johnston Conservative Absent n/a
Michael Marra Labour Absent n/a
Elizabeth Smith Conservative Absent n/a
Pauline McNeill Labour Absent n/a
Neil Bibby Labour Absent n/a
Graham Simpson Conservative Absent n/a
Douglas Ross Conservative Absent n/a
Liam Kerr Conservative Absent n/a
Oliver Mundell Conservative Absent n/a
Michael Matheson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Collette Stevenson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jenni Minto Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Bill Kidd Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alasdair Allan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Audrey Nicoll Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Paul McLennan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Rona Mackay Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
John Swinney Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Kaukab Stewart Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Joe FitzPatrick Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Stephanie Callaghan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jamie Hepburn Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Fulton MacGregor Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Fiona Hyslop Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Christine Grahame Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Ariane Burgess Green Absent n/a
Craig Hoy Conservative Absent n/a
Daniel Johnson Labour Absent n/a
Jeremy Balfour Conservative Absent n/a
Mercedes Villalba Labour Absent n/a
Paul Sweeney Labour Absent n/a
Alexander Stewart Conservative Absent n/a
Stephen Kerr Conservative Absent n/a
Lorna Slater Green Absent n/a
Willie Rennie Liberal Democrat Absent n/a
Brian Whittle Conservative Absent n/a
Edward Mountain Conservative Absent n/a
Dean Lockhart Conservative Absent n/a
Rachael Hamilton Conservative Absent n/a
Patrick Harvie Green Absent n/a
Mark Griffin Labour Absent n/a
Maurice Golden Conservative Absent n/a
Shirley-Anne Somerville Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Marie McNair Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Kevin Stewart Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
John Mason Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Angus Robertson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jim Fairlie Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Natalie Don Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Gillian Martin Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Kate Forbes Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Tom Arthur Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Bob Doris Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Neil Gray Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Annabelle Ewing Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Kenneth Gibson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alison Johnstone Green Absent n/a
Beatrice Wishart Liberal Democrat Absent n/a
Martin Whitfield Labour Absent n/a
Paul O'Kane Labour Absent n/a
Claire Baker Labour Absent n/a
Sue Webber Conservative Absent n/a
Douglas Lumsden Conservative Absent n/a
Murdo Fraser Conservative Absent n/a
Maggie Chapman Green Absent n/a
Monica Lennon Labour Absent n/a
Alex Cole-Hamilton Liberal Democrat Absent n/a
Gillian Mackay Green Absent n/a
Ross Greer Green Absent n/a
Annie Wells Conservative Absent n/a
Sandesh Gulhane Conservative Absent n/a
Jackie Baillie Labour Absent n/a
Tess White Conservative Absent n/a
Finlay Carson Conservative Absent n/a
Jackson Carlaw Conservative Absent n/a
Russell Findlay Conservative Absent n/a