Equal marriage – How every Labour MP voted at every stage of the bill

With much jubilation, the 3^rd reading of the same-sex marriage bill passed the House of Commons last night, carried through on the weight of Labour votes, but how have individual MPs voted on this bill?

In the 2^nd reading of the equal marriage bill, Labour MP voting totals were:

217 – for

22 – against

14 – non-voters

For the third reading

192 – for

14 – against

49 – non-voters

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192 Labour MPs who voted yes on 3^rd reading (9 didn’t vote in 2^nd reading, but voted for in 3^rd; 3 voted against 2^nd reading; 180 voted for in both readings):

Iain McKenzie, Frank Roy & Mike Wood – voted against in the 2nd reading

Didn’t vote in the 2nd reading (not all intentional abstentions, a number were unable to attend the 2nd reading vote) –

Anne Begg
Gordon Brown
Bill Esterson
Pat Glass
Michael Meacher
Ian Mearns
Yasmin Qureshi
Virenda Sharma
Shaun Woodward

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Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington)
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth)
Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South)
Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East)
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow)
Graham Allen (Nottingham North)
Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South)
Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West)
William Bain (Glasgow North East)
Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood)
Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire)
Hugh Bayley (York Central)
Margaret Beckett (Derby South)
Anne Begg (Aberdeen South)
Hilary Benn (Leeds Central)
Luciana Berger (Liverpool Wavertree)
Clive Betts (Sheffield South East)
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham)
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central)
Ben Bradshaw (Exeter)
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West)
Gordon Brown (Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Lyn Brown (West Ham)
Chris Bryant (Rhondda)
Karen Buck (Westminster North)
Richard Burden (Birmingham Northfield)
Andy Burnham (Leigh)
Liam Byrne (Birmingham Hodge Hill)
Alan Campbell (Tynemouth)
Martin Caton (Gower)
Sarah Champion (Rotherham)
Jenny Chapman (Darlington)
Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran)
Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley)
Vernon Coaker (Gedling)
Ann Coffey (Stockport)
Yvette Cooper (Normanton Pontefract and Castleford)
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North)
Mary Creagh (Wakefield)
Stella Creasy (Walthamstow)
Jon Cruddas (Dagenham and Rainham)
John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead)
Jim Cunningham (Coventry South)
Margaret Curran (Glasgow East)
Nicholas Dakin (Scunthorpe)
Simon Danczuk (Rochdale)
Alistair Darling (Edinburgh South West)
Wayne David (Caerphilly)
Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West)
Geraint Davies (Swansea West)
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield)
John Denham (Southampton Itchen)
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras)
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth)
Jim Dowd (Lewisham West and Penge)
Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire)
Jack Dromey (Birmingham Erdington)
Michael Dugher (Barnsley East)
Angela Eagle (Wallasey)
Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood)
Clive Efford (Eltham)
Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central)
Louise Ellman (Liverpool Riverside)
Natascha Engel (North East Derbyshire)
Bill Esterson (Sefton Central)
Chris Evans (Islwyn)
Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Frank Field (Birkenhead)
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse)
Caroline Flint (Don Valley)
Paul Flynn (Newport West)
Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield)
Hywel Francis (Aberavon)
Mike Gapes (Ilford South)
Barry Gardiner (Brent North)
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East)
Pat Glass (North West Durham)
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston)
Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South)
Nia Griffith (Llanelli)
Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish)
David Hamilton (Midlothian)
Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East)
David Hanson (Delyn)
Tom Harris (Glasgow South)
John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne)
Mark Hendrick (Preston)
Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow)
Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch)
Julie Hilling (Bolton West)
Margaret Hodge (Barking)
Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West)
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall)
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North)
George Howarth (Knowsley)
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore)
Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun)
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central)
Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Graham Jones (Hyndburn)
Kevan Jones (North Durham)
Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South)
Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood)
Gerald Kaufman (Manchester Gorton)
Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South)
Liz Kendall (Leicester West)
David Lammy (Tottenham)
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck)
Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith)
Christopher Leslie (Nottingham East)
Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields)
Andrew Love (Edmonton)
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough)
Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham Ladywood)
Seema Malhotra (Feltham and Heston)
John Mann (Bassetlaw)
Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South)
Stephen McCabe (Birmingham Selly Oak)
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East)
Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East)
Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham and Morden)
Andrew McDonald (Middlesbrough)
Pat McFadden (Wolverhampton South East)
Alison McGovern (Wirral South)
Anne McGuire (Stirling)
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North)
Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde)
Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton)
Alan Meale (Mansfield)
Ian Mearns (Gateshead)
Ed Miliband (Doncaster North)
Madeleine Moon (Bridgend)
Jessica Morden (Newport East)
Graeme Morrice (Livingston)
Grahame Morris (Easington)
Meg Munn (Sheffield Heeley)
Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire)
Ian Murray (Edinburgh South)
Lisa Nandy (Wigan)
Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts)
Fiona O’Donnell (East Lothian)
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central)
Sandra Osborne (Ayr Carrick and Cumnock)
Albert Owen (Ynys Môn)
Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead)
Toby Perkins (Chesterfield)
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South)
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East)
Nick Raynsford (Greenwich and Woolwich)
Jamie Reed (Copeland)
Steve Reed (Croydon North)
Emma Reynolds (Wolverhampton North East)
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde)
Linda Riordan (Halifax)
John Robertson (Glasgow North West)
Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West)
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool Walton)
Frank Roy (Motherwell and Wishaw)
Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes)
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd)
Andy Sawford (Corby)
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth Moor View)
Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall)
Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield)
Dennis Skinner (Bolsover)
Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith)
Andrew Smith (Oxford East)
Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent)
Owen Smith (Pontypridd)
Jack Straw (Blackburn)
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton)
Gisela Stuart (Birmingham Edgbaston)
Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South)
Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside)
Gareth Thomas (Harrow West)
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury)
Karl Turner (Kingston upon Hull East)
Stephen Twigg (Liverpool West Derby)
Chuka Umunna (Streatham)
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South)
Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North)
Tom Watson (West Bromwich East)
Alan Whitehead (Southampton Test)
Chris Williamson (Derby North)
Phil Wilson (Sedgefield)
David Winnick (Walsall North)
Rosie Winterton (Doncaster Central)
Mike Wood (Batley and Spen)
Shaun Woodward (St Helens South and Whiston)
Iain Wright (Hartlepool)

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49 Labour MPs (plus Eric Joyce) who didn’t vote (5 MPs didn’t vote in either reading; 37 voted for in 2^nd reading; 7 voted against in 2^nd reading):

Didn’t vote in either reading:

Alex Cunningham
David Hayes
Jimmy Hood
Khalid Mahmood
Gavin Shuker

Voted against in 2^nd reading:

Ronnie Campbell
Tony Cunningham
Dai Havard
Michael McCann
Jim McGovern
Jim Sheridan
Derek Twigg

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Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East)
David Anderson (Blaydon)
Ian Austin (Dudley North)
Kevin Barron (Rother Valley)
Hazel Blears (Salford and Eccles)
David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Nick Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East)
Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway)
Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley)
Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk)
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North)
Tony Cunningham (Workington)
Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife)
Frank Doran (Aberdeen North)
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland)
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Peter Hain (Neath)
Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham)
Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney)
David Heyes (Ashton-under-Lyne)
Jimmy Hood (Lanark and Hamilton East)
Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Glenda Jackson (Hampstead and Kilburn)
Siân James (Swansea East)
Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North)
Helen Jones (Warrington North)
Sadiq Khan (Tooting)
Ivan Lewis (Bury South)
Ian Lucas (Wrexham)
Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham, Perry Barr)
Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow)
John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington)
Jim McGovern (Dundee West)
Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby)
Lucy Powell (Manchester Central)
Rachel Reeves (Leeds West)
Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford)
Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central)
Jim Sheridan (Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Gavin Shuker (Luton South)
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge)
John Spellar (Warley)
Jon Trickett (Hemsworth)
Derek Twigg (Halton)
Keith Vaz (Leicester East)
Dave Watts (St Helens North)
John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness)
David Wright (Telford)

[Editor’s note – of course many Labour MPs had entirely legitimate reasons for not being in the house to vote. For example both Lucy Powell and Rachel Reeves are on Maternity Leave and Angela Smith has just had a hip replacement]

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14 Labour MPs who voted against (2 didn’t vote in 2^nd reading, but voted against in 3^rd):

Roger Godsiff and Stephen Timms didn’t vote in 2^nd reading

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Joe Benton (Bootle)
Tom Clarke (Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill)
Rosie Cooper (Lancashire West)
David Crausby (Bolton North East)
Jim Dobbin (Heywood & Middleton)
Brian Donohoe (Ayrshire Central)
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South)
Mary Glindon (Tyneside North)
Roger Godsiff (Birmingham Hall Green)
Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe & Sale East)
George Mudie (Leeds East)
Paul Murphy (Torfaen)
Stephen Pound (Ealing North)
Stephen Timms (East Ham)