Le Parlement de Londres, soleil couchant, Claude MONETÊ

Votes of the House of Commons from the current UK Parliament presented along with a corrected turnout figure accounting for assumed abstensions by parties.

Votes with abstentions are highlighed in yellow.

Votes where a party is "split" are highlighted in blue.

All divisions by Date, Turnout : (Overall or Highest within a party), "Corrected Turnout", Unamimity, Party(ies) Abstaining. or Party(ies) Split.

Bring the closest votes to the top by sorting by Majority (from low to high) or bring the votes won by the largest margin to the top by sorting by Majority (from high to low)

Sort by turnout for each of the Conservative, Liberal Democrat, or Labour parties.

View only Conservative Abstentions, Liberal Democrat Abstentions, or Labour Abstentions. (Show all votes with an abstaining party).

View only votes where the Conservative Party was split, Liberal Democrat Party was split, or Labour Party was split. (Show all votes with split parties).

More details of the method are available below the table.

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Date	Title	Conservative Turnout (%)	Liberal Democrat Turnout (%)	Labour Turnout (%)	Overall Turnout (%)	Highest Party Turnout (%)	Lowest Party Unanimity (%)	Corrected Turnout (%)	Majority (Votes)	Party(ies) Abstaining	Party(ies) Split
15th of June 2010 at 21:03	Business of the House — Backbench Business Committee — 15 Jun 2010 at 21:03	86.9	84.2	43.8	69.1	86.9	3	69.1	92	None	Conservative (71:29) and Liberal Democrat (35:65) and Labour (51:49)
15th of June 2010 at 21:03	Business of the House — Backbench Business Committee — 15 Jun 2010 at 21:03	85.6	84.2	44.2	68.6	85.6	47	68.6	231	None	Labour (26:74)
15th of June 2010 at 17:26	Business of the House -- Programme motion — 15 Jun 2010 at 17:26	84.0	84.2	71.3	78.7	84.2	97	78.7	103	None	None
8th of June 2010 at 21:45	Queen's Speech — Inclusion of Nuclear Deterrent in Strategic Defence Review — 8 Jun 2010 at 21:45	90.2	89.5	5.8	56.1	90.2	100	91.9	303	Labour	None
8th of June 2010 at 21:45	Queen's Speech â€” Programme for Government — Economy — 8 Jun 2010 at 21:45	93.8	93.0	95.3	94.0	95.3	100	94.0	99	None	None
8th of June 2010 at 21:45	Queen's Speech — Programme for Government — 8 Jun 2010 at 21:45	92.8	93.0	93.0	92.7	93.0	100	92.7	78	None	None
7th of June 2010 at 21:45	Queen's Speech — Programme for Government — 7 Jun 2010 at 21:45	94.8	93.0	97.3	94.9	97.3	100	94.9	95	None	None

An abstension is assumed if less than 10%^[1] of the MPs in a main party vote in a division yet more than 50%^[2] of the MPs in one of the other main parties do vote.

A corrected figure for turnout is calculated for divisions where an abstention is assumed. The "corrected turnout" assumes that the fraction of MPs actively abstaining would be the same as the fraction of MPs voting in the party which saw the greatest fraction of its MPs vote in the division.

The 10% cutoff can be justified by the shape of a graph showing the frequency with which each % turnout occurs. The behaviour at the lower end (abstensions) starts from around 10%.
The "yet more than 50% from one of the main parties voted" element of the rule is required to avoid assuming an abstention when few MPs from any of the main parties vote in a division. The 50% is high enough to avoid catching situations where it appears that few MPs from all main parties participated in a vote. Again, I think it can be justified and defended it with reference to the graph; picking 50% ensures that all the "normal" votes (those in the normal looking distribution) to the right of the graph are covered.

A party is marked as "split" if less than 80% of those MPs from that party who vote do so in line with the majority of that party.

At the time of writing in 85% of votes the party with the lowest unaminity has more than 80% of its MPs voting in line with the majority of that party.

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Votes of the House of Commons from the current UK Parliament presented along with a corrected turnout figure accounting for assumed abstensions by parties.

Votes with abstentions are highlighed in yellow.

Votes where a party is "split" are highlighted in blue.

An abstension is assumed if less than 10%[1] of the MPs in a main party vote in a division yet more than 50%[2] of the MPs in one of the other main parties do vote.

A party is marked as "split" if less than 80% of those MPs from that party who vote do so in line with the majority of that party.

An abstension is assumed if less than 10%^[1] of the MPs in a main party vote in a division yet more than 50%^[2] of the MPs in one of the other main parties do vote.