Scottish Parliament – Nov. 4, 2025 – 43
Amendment 75: Land Reform (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
Result
❌ Motion failed.
Aye: 45 MSPs
No: 71 MSPs
Absent: 13 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 75 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 | 116 | 45 | 71 | 13 | 89.92% | 38.79% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 66 | 56 | 44 | 12 | 10 | 84.85% | 78.57% |
| Government | 63 | 60 | 1 | 59 | 3 | 95.24% | 1.67% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 21 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 80.95% | 94.12% |
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 60 | 1 | 59 | 3 | 95.24% | 1.67% |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 80.00% | 0.00% |
| Reform UK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00% | n/a |
| Independent | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 33.33% | 100.00% |
| Conservative | 28 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 96.43% | 100.00% |
| Green | 8 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 87.50% | 0.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tess White | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | Aye | 1.67% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Anas Sarwar | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Graham Simpson | Reform UK | Absent | n/a |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | No | 5.88% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Ash Denham | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |
| Jeremy Balfour | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Independent | Aye | n/a |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Aye | 100.00% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | No | 98.33% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Colin Smyth | Independent | Absent | n/a |