Scottish Parliament – June 24, 2025 – 6
Amendment 140: Education (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
Result
❌ Motion failed.
Aye: 49 MSPs
No: 66 MSPs
Absent: 14 MSPs
Parliamentary analysis
Part of tag: Education (Scotland) Bill
Strong conflict: Opposition proposesThis vote is most similar to a group of votes where the opposition has proposed a motion and the government is strongly opposing it (few defections, high turnout).
This usually suggests an important point of principle, or that it would have substantive effects if passed.
Motion
Motion type: Amendment(?)
The question is, that amendment 140 be agreed to. Are we agreed?
Annotations
No annotations for this decision.
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 | 115 | 49 | 66 | 14 | 89.15% | 42.61% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 66 | 59 | 49 | 10 | 7 | 89.39% | 83.05% |
| Government | 63 | 56 | 0 | 56 | 7 | 88.89% | 0.00% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 23 | 22 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 95.65% | 100.00% |
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 56 | 0 | 56 | 7 | 88.89% | 0.00% |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 60.00% | 0.00% |
| Conservative | 30 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 3 | 90.00% | 100.00% |
| Green | 8 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 87.50% | 0.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Anas Sarwar | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jeremy Balfour | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Tess White | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Ash Denham | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Graham Simpson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Colin Smyth | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | No | 100.00% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |