Scottish Parliament – Sept. 23, 2025 – 28
Amendment 158: Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
Result
❌ Motion failed.
Aye: 41 MSPs
No: 67 MSPs
Absent: 21 MSPs
Parliamentary analysis
Part of tag: Housing (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 158 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 | 108 | 41 | 67 | 21 | 83.72% | 37.96% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 66 | 53 | 40 | 13 | 13 | 80.30% | 75.47% |
| Government | 63 | 55 | 1 | 54 | 8 | 87.30% | 1.82% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 100.00% | 0.00% |
| Labour | 22 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 77.27% | 94.12% |
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 55 | 1 | 54 | 8 | 87.30% | 1.82% |
| Independent | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50.00% | 100.00% |
| Reform UK | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Conservative | 28 | 22 | 22 | 0 | 6 | 78.57% | 100.00% |
| Green | 8 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 87.50% | 0.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Colin Smyth | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ash Denham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 1.82% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Graham Simpson | Reform UK | Aye | 100.00% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | No | 100.00% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Jeremy Balfour | Independent | Aye | n/a |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | No | 5.88% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Anas Sarwar | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Tess White | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Ross Greer | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | No | 98.18% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |