Scottish Parliament – May 15, 2025 – 3

Scotland in Today’s Europe

Result

✅ Motion passed.

Aye: 70 MSPs

No: 45 MSPs

Absent: 14 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-17539: That the Parliament agrees that the best relationship that Scotland and the UK can have with the EU is to be a member of the EU;

calls on the UK Government to drop its red lines on the single market, customs union and freedom of movement;

further calls on the UK Government, at its forthcoming summit with the EU, as a first step, to negotiate an ambitious veterinary, food and drink agreement, closer energy and climate co-operation, greater freedom of movement, including opportunities for young people, and further measures to lessen the ongoing economic, social and cultural damage of Brexit, and believes that it is unacceptable that the UK Government has not shared any draft summit texts with the Scottish or other devolved governments.

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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 129 115 70 45 14 89.15% 60.87%

Government counts

Grouping MSPs on date Vote participant count For motion Against motion Absent motion Turnout For motion percentage
Opposition 65 54 10 44 11 83.08% 18.52%
Government 64 61 60 1 3 95.31% 98.36%

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 61 60 1 3 95.31% 98.36%
Liberal Democrat 5 3 3 0 2 60.00% 100.00%
Labour 22 16 0 16 6 72.73% 0.00%
Conservative 30 28 0 28 2 93.33% 0.00%
Green 8 7 7 0 1 87.50% 100.00%

Voting list

Person Party Vote Party alignment
Maree Todd Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Liam McArthur Liberal Democrat Aye 100.00%
Tim Eagle Conservative No 100.00%
Mairi Gougeon Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Patrick Harvie Green Aye 100.00%
Mark Ruskell Green Aye 100.00%
Jackson Carlaw Conservative No 100.00%
Russell Findlay Conservative No 100.00%
Ivan McKee Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Craig Hoy Conservative No 100.00%
Douglas Lumsden Conservative No 100.00%
Humza Yousaf Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Liam Kerr Conservative No 100.00%
Bob Doris Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Màiri McAllan Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Colin Beattie Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Ruth Maguire Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Graeme Dey Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Emma Harper Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Kaukab Stewart Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Michael Marra Labour Absent n/a
Evelyn Tweed Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Kate Forbes Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Meghan Gallacher Conservative No 100.00%
Tom Arthur Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Gordon MacDonald Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Mark Griffin Labour Absent n/a
Paul O'Kane Labour Absent n/a
Richard Lochhead Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Paul Sweeney Labour No 100.00%
Martin Whitfield Labour No 100.00%
Paul McLennan Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Rhoda Grant Labour No 100.00%
Ash Denham Scottish National Party No 1.64%
Maggie Chapman Green Aye 100.00%
Sandesh Gulhane Conservative No 100.00%
Clare Haughey Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Alex Cole-Hamilton Liberal Democrat Aye 100.00%
Michael Matheson Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Edward Mountain Conservative No 100.00%
Baroness Clark Labour No 100.00%
Elena Whitham Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Angela Constance Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Jenny Gilruth Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Kevin Stewart Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
David Torrance Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Claire Baker Labour No 100.00%
Douglas Ross Conservative No 100.00%
Richard Leonard Labour No 100.00%
Christine Grahame Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Alexander Stewart Conservative No 100.00%
Annabelle Ewing Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Michelle Thomson Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Sharon Dowey Conservative No 100.00%
Stephen Kerr Conservative No 100.00%
Gillian Mackay Green Aye 100.00%
Willie Coffey Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
James Dornan Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Emma Roddick Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Daniel Johnson Labour No 100.00%
Finlay Carson Conservative Absent n/a
Brian Whittle Conservative Absent n/a
Alex Rowley Labour Absent n/a
Christina McKelvie Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Fergus Ewing Scottish National Party Absent n/a
Pam Gosal Conservative No 100.00%
Anas Sarwar Labour No 100.00%
John Mason Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Sue Webber Conservative No 100.00%
Stuart McMillan Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Miles Briggs Conservative No 100.00%
Carol Mochan Labour No 100.00%
Jamie Halcro Johnston Conservative No 100.00%
Sarah Boyack Labour No 100.00%
Ariane Burgess Green Aye 100.00%
Rachael Hamilton Conservative No 100.00%
Nicola Sturgeon Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Murdo Fraser Conservative No 100.00%
George Adam Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Fiona Hyslop Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Neil Gray Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Roz McCall Conservative No 100.00%
Kenneth Gibson Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Jackie Dunbar Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Maurice Golden Conservative No 100.00%
Keith Brown Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Colin Smyth Labour No 100.00%
Joe FitzPatrick Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Stephanie Callaghan Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Jeremy Balfour Conservative No 100.00%
Jamie Hepburn Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Jackie Baillie Labour No 100.00%
Pam Duncan-Glancy Labour Absent n/a
Elizabeth Smith Conservative No 100.00%
Audrey Nicoll Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Rona Mackay Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Shona Robison Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Alexander Burnett Conservative No 100.00%
Angus Robertson Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Ross Greer Green Aye 100.00%
Graham Simpson Conservative No 100.00%
Foysol Choudhury Labour No 100.00%
Marie McNair Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Neil Bibby Labour No 100.00%
Tess White Conservative No 100.00%
Shirley-Anne Somerville Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Collette Stevenson Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Siobhian Brown Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Bill Kidd Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Jenni Minto Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Annie Wells Conservative No 100.00%
Clare Adamson Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Pauline McNeill Labour No 100.00%
Alasdair Allan Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Fulton MacGregor Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Oliver Mundell Conservative No 100.00%
Lorna Slater Green Aye 100.00%
John Swinney Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Jim Fairlie Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Karen Adam Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Natalie Don Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Mercedes Villalba Labour No 100.00%
Gillian Martin Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Beatrice Wishart Liberal Democrat Aye 100.00%
Ben Macpherson Scottish National Party Aye 98.36%
Willie Rennie Liberal Democrat Absent n/a
Alison Johnstone Green Absent n/a
Jamie Greene Liberal Democrat Absent n/a
Monica Lennon Labour Absent n/a