Scottish Parliament – March 13, 2026 – 30
Amendment 58: Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
Result
✅ Motion passed.
Aye: 111 MSPs
No: 4 MSPs
Absent: 10 MSPs
Abstain: 4 MSPs
Parliamentary analysis
Part of tag: Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (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 58 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 | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All MSPs | 129 | 115 | 111 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 89.15% | 96.52% |
Government counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition | 129 | 115 | 111 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 89.15% | 96.52% |
Party voting counts
| Grouping | MSPs on date | Vote participant count | For motion | Against motion | Neutral motion | Absent motion | Party turnout | For motion percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 87.50% | 100.00% |
| Scottish National Party | 63 | 60 | 58 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 95.24% | 96.67% |
| Labour | 20 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 85.00% | 94.12% |
| Independent | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 25.00% | 100.00% |
| Liberal Democrat | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | 100.00% |
| Reform UK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00% | n/a |
| Conservative | 28 | 25 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 89.29% | 96.00% |
Voting list
| Person | Party | Vote | Party alignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pauline McNeill | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Emma Roddick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Douglas Lumsden | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Gillian Mackay | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Monica Lennon | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Maurice Golden | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Jim Fairlie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Claire Baker | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Richard Leonard | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Liam Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Fiona Hyslop | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Sharon Dowey | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Michelle Thomson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Neil Gray | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Graeme Dey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Kenneth Gibson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Edward Mountain | Conservative | Abstain | 54.00% |
| Foysol Choudhury | Independent | Aye | n/a |
| Collette Stevenson | Scottish National Party | No | 3.33% |
| George Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Jenny Gilruth | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Paul Sweeney | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Ross Greer | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ariane Burgess | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sarah Boyack | Labour | Abstain | 55.88% |
| Mairi Gougeon | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Paul McLennan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Graham Simpson | Reform UK | Absent | n/a |
| Jeremy Balfour | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| James Dornan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Mercedes Villalba | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Keith Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Tom Arthur | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Jackie Baillie | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Jamie Hepburn | Scottish National Party | No | 3.33% |
| Humza Yousaf | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Oliver Mundell | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Douglas Ross | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Bob Doris | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Brian Whittle | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Fulton MacGregor | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Màiri McAllan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Stephen Kerr | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Russell Findlay | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Baroness Clark | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Neil Bibby | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Shirley-Anne Somerville | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Angela Constance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Clare Adamson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Siobhian Brown | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Michael Marra | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| David Torrance | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Craig Hoy | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Paul O'Kane | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Mark Ruskell | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Patrick Harvie | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Audrey Nicoll | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Alex Rowley | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Rona Mackay | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Jackson Carlaw | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| John Mason | Independent | Aye | 96.67% |
| Richard Lochhead | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Davy Russell | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Alexander Burnett | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Jamie Halcro Johnston | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Maggie Chapman | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Ash Denham | Independent | Aye | 96.67% |
| Rhoda Grant | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Ruth Maguire | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Colin Smyth | Independent | Absent | n/a |
| Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish National Party | Absent | n/a |
| Rachael Hamilton | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Kaukab Stewart | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Daniel Johnson | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Fergus Ewing | Independent | Aye | 96.67% |
| Ben Macpherson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Finlay Carson | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Christine Grahame | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Alex Cole-Hamilton | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Clare Haughey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Gordon MacDonald | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Colin Beattie | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Michael Matheson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Alasdair Allan | Scottish National Party | Abstain | 53.33% |
| Pam Gosal | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Martin Whitfield | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Angus Robertson | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | Absent | n/a |
| Lord Sarwar | Labour | Absent | n/a |
| Willie Coffey | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| John Swinney | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Emma Harper | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Lorna Slater | Green | Aye | 100.00% |
| Karen Adam | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Gillian Martin | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Beatrice Wishart | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Natalie Don | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Stephanie Callaghan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Evelyn Tweed | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Meghan Gallacher | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Kate Forbes | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Alexander Stewart | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Roz McCall | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Jamie Greene | Liberal Democrat | Aye | 100.00% |
| Marie McNair | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Murdo Fraser | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Ivan McKee | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Tess White | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Annie Wells | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Bill Kidd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Elena Whitham | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Jenni Minto | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Tim Eagle | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Elizabeth Smith | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Sue Webber | Conservative | No | 4.00% |
| Shona Robison | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Maree Todd | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Carol Mochan | Labour | No | 5.88% |
| Miles Briggs | Conservative | Aye | 96.00% |
| Stuart McMillan | Scottish National Party | Aye | 96.67% |
| Pam Duncan-Glancy | Independent | Abstain | n/a |
| Mark Griffin | Labour | Aye | 94.12% |
| Alison Johnstone | Presiding Officer | Absent | n/a |