Scottish Parliament – Oct. 28, 2025 – 65
Amendment 147: Land Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
Result
❌ Motion failed.
Aye: 46 MSPs
No: 62 MSPs
Absent: 21 MSPs
Parliamentary analysis
Part of tag: Land Reform (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 147 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 | 46 | 62 | 21 | 83.72% | 42.59% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 66 | 53 | 46 | 7 | 13 | 80.30% | 86.79% |
| Government | 63 | 55 | 0 | 55 | 8 | 87.30% | 0.00% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 33.33% | 100.00% |
| Reform UK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00% | n/a |
| Conservative | 28 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 92.86% | 100.00% |
| Green | 8 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 87.50% | 0.00% |
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 55 | 0 | 55 | 8 | 87.30% | 0.00% |
| Labour | 21 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 6 | 71.43% | 100.00% |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 80.00% | 100.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Tess White | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Independent | Aye | n/a |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Colin Smyth | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| John Mason | Independent | No | 100.00% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michelle Thomson | 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% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Graham Simpson | Reform UK | Absent | n/a |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Alison Johnstone | Presiding Officer | Absent | n/a |
| Fergus Ewing | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Lord Sarwar | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Aye | 100.00% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | No | 100.00% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Jeremy Balfour | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Ash Denham | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | Absent | n/a |