Scottish Parliament – March 4, 2025 – 4

Scotland’s Renewable Future

Result

✅ Motion passed.

Aye: 69 MSPs

No: 50 MSPs

Absent: 10 MSPs

Parliamentary analysis

Strong conflict: Gov proposes

This vote is most similar to a group of votes where the government is proposing a motion and the opposition is strongly opposing it (few defections, high turnout).

This usually suggests an important point of principle, that even if the government is likely to win, is a significant public signal of opposition.

Motion

Motion type: Other(?)

S6M-16657: That the Parliament rejects the creation of new nuclear power plants in Scotland and the risk that they bring;

believes that Scotland’s future is as a renewables powerhouse;

further believes that the expansion of renewables should have a positive impact on household energy bills;

notes the challenges and dangers of producing and managing hazardous radioactive nuclear waste products, and the potentially catastrophic consequences of the failure of a nuclear power plant;

recognises that the development and operation of renewable power generation is faster, cheaper and safer than that of nuclear power, and welcomes that renewables would deliver higher employment than nuclear power for the development and production of equivalent levels of generated power.

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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 129 119 69 50 10 92.25% 57.98%

Government counts

Grouping MSPs on date Vote participant count For motion Against motion Absent motion Turnout For motion percentage
Opposition 65 57 7 50 8 87.69% 12.28%
Government 64 62 62 0 2 96.88% 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 62 62 0 2 96.88% 100.00%
Labour 22 17 0 17 5 77.27% 0.00%
Liberal Democrat 4 4 0 4 0 100.00% 0.00%
Conservative 31 29 0 29 2 93.55% 0.00%
Green 8 7 7 0 1 87.50% 100.00%

Voting list

Person Party Vote Party alignment
Pam Gosal Conservative No 100.00%
Christina McKelvie Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Audrey Nicoll Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Maree Todd Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Carol Mochan Labour No 100.00%
Alexander Burnett Conservative No 100.00%
Richard Lochhead Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Martin Whitfield Labour No 100.00%
Paul Sweeney Labour No 100.00%
Stuart McMillan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Ariane Burgess Green Aye 100.00%
Rachael Hamilton Conservative No 100.00%
Marie McNair Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Neil Bibby Labour No 100.00%
Angela Constance Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Clare Adamson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Siobhian Brown Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Foysol Choudhury Labour No 100.00%
Gordon MacDonald Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Collette Stevenson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Pauline McNeill Labour No 100.00%
Claire Baker Labour No 100.00%
Douglas Ross Conservative No 100.00%
Liam Kerr Conservative No 100.00%
Michelle Thomson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Sharon Dowey Conservative No 100.00%
Colin Beattie Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Graeme Dey Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Willie Coffey Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Daniel Johnson Labour No 100.00%
Joe FitzPatrick Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Keith Brown Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jeremy Balfour Conservative No 100.00%
Evelyn Tweed Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jamie Hepburn Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Kaukab Stewart Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
James Dornan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Russell Findlay Conservative Absent n/a
David Torrance Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Anas Sarwar Labour No 100.00%
Elizabeth Smith Conservative No 100.00%
Jackson Carlaw Conservative No 100.00%
Paul McLennan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Rhoda Grant Labour No 100.00%
Maggie Chapman Green Aye 100.00%
Michael Matheson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Sandesh Gulhane Conservative No 100.00%
Bill Kidd Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jenni Minto Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Craig Hoy Conservative No 100.00%
Douglas Lumsden Conservative No 100.00%
Humza Yousaf Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Roz McCall Conservative No 100.00%
Neil Gray Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Màiri McAllan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Stephen Kerr Conservative No 100.00%
Lorna Slater Green Aye 100.00%
Karen Adam Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Natalie Don Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Gillian Martin Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Fergus Ewing Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alison Johnstone Green Absent n/a
Tim Eagle Conservative No 100.00%
Mairi Gougeon Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Rona Mackay Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Miles Briggs Conservative No 100.00%
Mark Griffin Labour No 100.00%
Shona Robison Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Angus Robertson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Pam Duncan-Glancy Labour No 100.00%
Sarah Boyack Labour No 100.00%
Liam McArthur Liberal Democrat No 100.00%
Willie Rennie Liberal Democrat No 100.00%
Jamie Halcro Johnston Conservative No 100.00%
Nicola Sturgeon Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Clare Haughey Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alex Cole-Hamilton Liberal Democrat No 100.00%
Tess White Conservative No 100.00%
Shirley-Anne Somerville Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Annie Wells Conservative No 100.00%
George Adam Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alasdair Allan Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jenny Gilruth Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Bob Doris Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Brian Whittle Conservative No 100.00%
Finlay Carson Conservative No 100.00%
Richard Leonard Labour No 100.00%
Fiona Hyslop Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Christine Grahame Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alexander Stewart Conservative No 100.00%
Annabelle Ewing Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Kenneth Gibson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jackie Dunbar Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Ruth Maguire Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
John Swinney Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Emma Harper Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Maurice Golden Conservative No 100.00%
Colin Smyth Labour No 100.00%
Tom Arthur Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Meghan Gallacher Conservative No 100.00%
Monica Lennon Labour Absent n/a
Jackie Baillie Labour Absent n/a
Oliver Mundell Conservative Absent n/a
Stephanie Callaghan Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Patrick Harvie Green Aye 100.00%
Paul O'Kane Labour No 100.00%
Mark Ruskell Green Aye 100.00%
Sue Webber Conservative No 100.00%
John Mason Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Ross Greer Green Aye 100.00%
Graham Simpson Conservative No 100.00%
Ash Denham Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Edward Mountain Conservative No 100.00%
Ivan McKee Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Murdo Fraser Conservative No 100.00%
Elena Whitham Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Kevin Stewart Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Michael Marra Labour No 100.00%
Fulton MacGregor Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Jamie Greene Conservative No 100.00%
Gillian Mackay Green Aye 100.00%
Jim Fairlie Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Beatrice Wishart Liberal Democrat No 100.00%
Emma Roddick Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Ben Macpherson Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Kate Forbes Scottish National Party Aye 100.00%
Alex Rowley Labour Absent n/a
Baroness Clark Labour Absent n/a
Mercedes Villalba Labour Absent n/a