Scottish Parliament – Nov. 26, 2025 – 2
Backing Oil and Gas (Amendment 3)
Result
❌ Motion failed.
Aye: 58 MSPs
No: 60 MSPs
Absent: 10 MSPs
Abstain: 1 MSP
Parliamentary analysis
Strong conflict: Gov proposesThis 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: Amendment(?)
S6M-19894.3: As an amendment to motion S6M-19894 in the name of Douglas Lumsden (Backing Oil and Gas), leave out from first “the Scottish” to end and insert “that the Conservative Party, while in the UK Government, extended the Energy Profits Levy and failed to replace it with a sustainable fiscal regime that supports a just transition, and recognises that communities in Scotland are now paying the price of the UK Conservative administration’s levy on Scottish industry.”
Original motion(S6M-19894): That the Parliament regrets the Scottish Government's ideological drive to end North Sea oil and gas exploration and production;
notes the negative impact on oil and gas jobs, energy security, the economy and the environment of the Scottish Government's failure to pursue an informed, data-led, evidence-based North Sea policy;
demands the immediate and unequivocal reversal of the Scottish Government's presumption against new oil and gas exploration and production, and calls on the UK Government to immediately abolish the Energy Profits Levy.
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Overall counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All MSPs | 129 | 118 | 58 | 60 | 1 | 10 | 91.47% | 49.15% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 66 | 60 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 6 | 90.91% | 0.00% |
| Government | 63 | 58 | 58 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 92.06% | 100.00% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 21 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 95.24% | 0.00% |
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 58 | 58 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 92.06% | 100.00% |
| Reform UK | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | 0.00% |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 80.00% | 0.00% |
| Independent | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 66.67% | 0.00% |
| Conservative | 28 | 26 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 92.86% | 0.00% |
| Green | 8 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 87.50% | 0.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tess White | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Ross Greer | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Graham Simpson | Reform UK | No | 100.00% |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jeremy Balfour | Independent | No | n/a |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Colin Smyth | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | No | 100.00% |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Independent | No | n/a |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Fergus Ewing | Scottish National Party | Abstain | 50.00% |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | Absent | n/a |
| Ash Denham | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Alison Johnstone | Green | Absent | n/a |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Anas Sarwar | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| John Mason | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | No | 100.00% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | No | 100.00% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | Aye | 100.00% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | No | 100.00% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |