House of Commons
Age of Consent Vote
Monday 22 June 1998

This is how Members of Parliament voted in the age of consent debate.

Vote Meaning MPs Percentage
Y Voted for equalisation 336 51.0%
Y* Tellers for (cannot vote) 2 0.3%
N Voted against equalisation 129 19.6%
N* Tellers against (cannot vote) 2 0.3%
A Absent or abstained 186 28.2%
S Speaker and 3 Deputy Speakers (do not vote) 4 0.6%
  Total 659 100.0%

The votes from each party were:

Party Name Y Y* N N* A S Total
Lab Labour 283 67.7% 1 0.2% 14 3.3% 0 0.0% 120 28.7% 0 0.0% 418 100.0%
Con Conservative 18 11.1% 1 0.6% 109 67.3% 2 1.2% 32 19.8% 0 0.0% 162 100.0%
LDem Liberal Democrat 31 67.4% 0 0.0% 3 6.5% 0 0.0% 12 26.1% 0 0.0% 46 100.0%
UU Ulster Unionists 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 10.0% 0 0.0% 9 90.0% 0 0.0% 10 100.0%
SNP Scottish National Party 2 33.3% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 4 66.7% 0 0.0% 6 100.0%
PC Plaid Cymru 2 50.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 2 50.0% 0 0.0% 4 100.0%
SDLP Social Democratic and Labour Party 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 3 100.0% 0 0.0% 3 100.0%
DU Ulster Democratic Unionist Party 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 50.0% 0 0.0% 1 50.0% 0 0.0% 2 100.0%
SF Sinn Fein (have not taken their seats) 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 2 100.0% 0 0.0% 2 100.0%
Ind Independent 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 100.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 100.0%
UKU United Kingdom Unionist 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 1 100.0% 0 0.0% 1 100.0%
S Speaker and 3 Deputy Speakers 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 4 100.0% 4 100.0%
  Total 336 51.0% 2 0.3% 129 19.6% 2 0.3% 186 28.2% 4 0.6% 659 100.0%

Complete list of MPs and how they voted (large table)

House of Commons Official Report for 22 June 1998

BMA Report on Age of Consent

Stonewall Web Site

Return to Home Page

Updated 1998-06-28

This page hosted by Geocities. Get your own Free Homepage