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Commons division · 9 Sep 2025, 18:56 · No. 287

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill: Second Reading

Passed

Majority 151

Ayes: 330 Noes: 179

At a glance The Ayes won by a margin of 148 votes. 4 MPs voted against their party line.

Defence & security

How the parties voted

PartyPositionAyesNoesRebels
Labour Aye majority 310 1 1
Conservative No majority 0 104 0
Liberal Democrat No majority 0 60 0
Independent Aye majority 12 3 3
Democratic Unionist Party No majority 0 5 0
Reform UK No majority 0 4 0
Green Party Aye majority 3 0 0
Social Democratic & Labour Party Aye majority 2 0 0

The party positions and rebel counts are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.

Turnout: 506 of 650 MPs voted (78%) · 140 did not vote · 4 acted as tellers. Tellers are not counted in the Aye/No totals.

Tellers: Nesil Caliskan (Aye), Imogen Walker (Aye), Paul Holmes (No), Jerome Mayhew (No).

Constituency map

Every constituency coloured by how its MP voted in this division. Hover a seat for the MP and their vote.

Basemap © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO. Boundaries: ONS, Open Government Licence.

Every vote

Ayes (327)

Noes (179)

Tellers (4)

Did not vote (140)

Source: the official Commons division record.