As readers of this blog will know, I’m a vocal campaigner for marriage equality and keen for our MPs to know that people who identify themselves as LGBT also vote too. Here’s a list of those MPs that voted against Equal Marriage at its second reading.
Tory MPs that voted against:
- Nigel Adams (Selby & Ainsty)
- Adam Afriyie (Windsor)
- Peter Aldous (Waveney)
- David Amess (Southend West)
- James Arbuthnot (Hampshire North East)
- Richard Bacon (Norfolk South)
- Steven Baker (Wycombe)
- Tony Baldry (Banbury)
- Guto Bebb (Aberconwy)
- Henry Bellingham (Norfolk North West)
- Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley)
- Andrew Bingham (High Peak)
- Bob Blackman (Harrow East)
- Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West)
- Julian Brazier (Canterbury)
- Andrew Bridgen (Leicestershire North West)
- Steve Brine (Winchester)
- Fiona Bruce (Congleton)
- Robert Buckland (Swindon South)
- Simon Burns (Chelmsford)
- David Burrowes (Enfield Southgate)
- Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan)
- Douglas Carswell (Clacton)
- Bill Cash (Stone)
- Rehman Chishti (Gillingham & Rainham)
- Christopher Chope (Christchurch)
- Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswolds, The)
- Geoffrey Cox (Devon West & Torridge)
- Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
- David Davies (Monmouth)
- Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire)
- Philip Davies (Shipley)
- David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden)
- Nick de Bois (Enfield North)
- Caroline Dinenage (Gosport)
- Richard Drax (Dorset South)
- Charlie Elphicke (Dover)
- Jonathan Evans (Cardiff North)
- David Evennett (Bexleyheath & Crayford)
- Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks)
- Dr Liam Fox (Somerset North)
- Mark Francois (Rayleigh & Wickford)
- George Freeman (Norfolk Mid)
- Roger Gale (Thanet North)
- Sir Edward Garnier (Harborough)
- Mark Garnier (Wyre Forest)
- Cheryl Gillan (Chesham & Amersham)
- John Glen (Salisbury)
- Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby)
- James Gray (Wiltshire North)
- Andrew Griffiths (Burton)
- Robert Halfon (Harlow)
- Simon Hart (Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire South)
- Sir Alan Haselhurst (Saffron Walden)
- John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings)
- Oliver Heald (Hertfordshire North East)
- Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne & Sheppey)
- Philip Hollobone (Kettering)
- Adam Holloway (Gravesham)
- Sir Gerald Howarth (Aldershot)
- Stewart Jackson (Peterborough)
- Gareth Johnson (Dartford)
- David Jones (Clwyd West)
- Marcus Jones (Nuneaton)
- Greg Knight (Yorkshire East)
- Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne)
- Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North)
- Pauline Latham (Derbyshire Mid)
- Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford)
- Edward Leigh (Gainsborough)
- Julian Lewis (New Forest East)
- David Lidington (Aylesbury)
- Peter Lilley (Hitchin & Harpenden)
- Jack Lopresti (Filton & Bradley Stoke)
- Jonathan Lord (Woking)
- Tim Loughton (Worthing East & Shoreham)
- Karen Lumley (Redditch)
- Karl McCartney (Lincoln)
- Anne McIntosh (Thirsk & Malton)
- Stephen McPartland (Stevenage)
- Esther McVey (Wirral West)
- Anne Main (St Albans)
- Paul Maynard (Blackpool North & Cleveleys)
- Stephen Metcalfe (Basildon South & Thurrock East
- Nicky Morgan (Loughborough)
- Anne-Marie Morris (Newton Abbot)
- David Morris (Morecambe & Lunesdale)
- James Morris (Halesowen & Rowley Regis)
- Bob Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst)
- Caroline Nokes (Romsey & Southampton North)
- David Nuttall (Bury North)
- Stephen O’Brien (Eddisbury)
- Matthew Offord (Hendon)
- Jim Paice (Cambridgeshire South East)
- Neil Parish (Tiverton & Honiton)
- Priti Patel (Witham)
- Owen Paterson (Shropshire North)
- Mark Pawsey (Rugby)
- Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead)
- Mark Pritchard (Wrekin, The)
- John Randall (Uxbridge & Ruislip South)
- John Redwood (Wokingham)
- Jacob Rees-Mogg (Somerset North East)
- Simon Reevell (Dewsbury)
- Sir Malcolm Rifkind (Kensington)
- Andrew Robathan (Leicestershire South)
- Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury)
- Andrew Rosindell (Romford)
- David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds)
- David Rutley (Macclesfield)
- Andrew Selous (Bedfordshire South West)
- Alec Shelbrooke (Elmet & Rothwell)
- Sir Richard Shepherd (Aldridge-Brownhills)
- Henry Smith (Crawley)
- Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge & Malling)
- John Stevenson (Carlisle)
- Bob Stewart (Beckenham)
- Mel Stride (Devon Central)
- Julian Sturdy (York Outer)
- Robert Syms (Poole)
- Sir Peter Tapsell (Louth & Horncastle)
- David Tredinnick (Bosworth)
- Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight)
- Shailesh Vara (Cambridgeshire North West)
- Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes)
- Ben Wallace (Wyre & Preston North)
- Robert Walter (Dorset North)
- James Wharton (Stockton South)
- Heather Wheeler (Derbyshire South)
- Craig Whittaker (Calder Valley)
- John Whittingdale (Maldon)
- Bill Wiggin (Herefordshire North)
- Gavin Williamson (Staffordshire South)
- Jeremy Wright (Kenilworth & Southam)
Tory MPs that didn’t vote at all:
- Harriett Baldwin (Worcestershire West)
- Stephen Barclay (Cambridgeshire North East)
- Jake Berry (Rossendale & Darwen)
- Brian Binley (Northampton South)
- Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West & Abingdon)
- Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon)
- Jackie Doyle-Price (Thurrock)
- Philip Dunne (Ludlow)
- Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East)
- George Eustice (Camborne & Redruth)
- Graham Evans (Weaver Vale)
- Richard Fuller (Bedford)
- Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield)
- Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge)
- Rebecca Harris (Castle Point)
- Mark Hoban (Fareham)
- Nick Hurd (Ruislip, Northwood & Pinner)
- Chris Kelly (Dudley South)
- Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest)
- Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater & Somerset West)
- Patrick Mercer (Newark)
- Anne Milton (Guildford)
- Sheryll Murray (Cornwall South East)
- Jesse Norman (Hereford & Herefordshire South)
- Claire Perry (Devizes)
- Stephen Phillips (Sleaford & North Hykeham)
- Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford)
- Lee Scott (Ilford North)
- Mark Spencer (Sherwood)
- Gary Streeter (Devon South West)
- Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness)
- Edward Timpson (Crewe & Nantwich)
- Andrew Tyrie (Chichester)
- Paul Uppal (Wolverhampton South West)
- Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon)
The Tory MPs that voted for and against (Traditional way to abstain):
- Angie Bray (Ealing Central and Acton)
- Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire)
- Phillip Lee (Bracknell)
- Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West)
- Rob Wilson (Reading East)
Labour MPs who voted against:
- Joe Benton (Bootle)
- Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley)
- Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill)
- Rosie Cooper (Lancashire West)
- David Crausby (Bolton North East)
- Tony Cunningham (Workington)
- Jim Dobbin (Heywood & Middleton)
- Brian Donohoe (Ayrshire Central)
- Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South)
- Mary Glindon (Tyneside North)
- Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe & Sale East)
- Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney)
- Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow)
- Jim McGovern (Dundee West)
- Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde)
- George Mudie (Leeds East)
- Paul Murphy (Torfaen)
- Stephen Pound (Ealing North)
- Frank Roy (Motherwell & Wishaw)
- Jim Sheridan (Paisley & Renfrewshire North)
- Derek Twigg (Halton)
- Mike Wood (Batley & Spen)
Labour MPs who didn’t vote at all:
- Dame Anne Begg (Aberdeen South)
- Gordon Brown (Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath)
- Alex Cunningham (Stockton North), Bill Esterson (Sefton Central)
- Pat Glass (Durham North West), Roger Godsiff (Birmingham Hall Green)
- David Heyes (Ashton Under Lyne)
- Jim Hood (Lanark & Hamilton East)
- Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham Perry Barr)
- Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton)
- Ian Mearns (Gateshead)
- Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East)
- Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall)
- Gavin Shuker (Luton South)
- Stephen Timms (East Ham)
- Shaun Woodward (St Helens South & Whiston)
Lib Dem MPs who voted against:
- Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed)
- Gordon Birtwistle (Burnley)
- John Pugh (Southport)
- Sarah Teather (Brent Central)
Lib Dem MPs that didn’t vote at all:
- Norman Baker (Lewes)
- Martin Horwood (Cheltenham)
- Charles Kennedy (Ross, Skye & Lochaber)
- Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West)
- John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross)
- David Ward (Bradford East), Jenny Willott (Cardiff Central)
The Democratic Unionists that voted against:
- Gregory Campbell (Londonderry East)
- Nigel Dodds (Belfast North)
- Jeffrey Donaldson (Lagan Valley)
- Rev William McCrea (Antrim South)
- Ian Paisley Junior (Antrim North)
- Jim Shannon (Strangford)
- David Simpson (Upper Bann)
- Sammy Wilson (Antrim East)
The Independents that voted against:
- Nadine Dorries (Bedfordshire Mid)
- Lady Sylvia Hermon (Down North)
So lets take this data and give each party a score based on the percentage of total party MPs. For the benefit of this score, I count an MP who has abstained as someone who did not vote in favour of Equal Marriage – whatever their reasoning for voting both in favour and against. I do not believe that voting for both does not demonstrate full support for equality. [Late Edit] I’ve also been reminded that some MP’s weren’t able to attend the vote for various reasons. I would hope that those MP’s that wanted to vote in favour at the second reading but were unable to attend already know their position – as do their campaigners and constituents.
- DUP 100%
- TORY 58%
- INDEPENDENTS 33.33%
- LIB DEM 20%
- LABOUR 14.99%
- GREEN 0%
- PLAID CYMRU 0%
- SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC AND LABOUR 0%
- ALLIANCE 0%
- RESPECT 0%