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Sunday
May102015

Election 2015: 134 reasons to be cheerful

One hundred and four Conservative MPs voted against standardised packaging of tobacco.

Ninety-one were re-elected (see below). Those marked with an asterisk also voted for an amendment to the smoking ban:

Nigel Adams (Selby & Ainsty)
David Amess (Southend West)
Steven Baker (Wycombe)*
Harriett Baldwin (Worcestershire West)
Guto Bebb (Aberconwy)*
Henry Bellingham (Norfolk North West)
Andrew Bingham (High Peak)*
Peter Bone (Wellingborough)
Karen Bradley (Staffordshire Moorlands)
Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West)*
Andrew Bridgen (Leicestershire North West) *
Conor Burns (Bournemouth West)
Christopher Chope (Christchurch)*
Kenneth Clarke (Rushcliffe)
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswolds)
Therese Coffey (Suffolk Coastal)*
Damian Collins (Folkestone & Hythe)
David Davies (Monmouth)*
Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire)
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport)*
Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon)
Jackie Doyle-Price (Thurrock)*
Richard Drax (Dorset South)
James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East)
Alan Duncan (Rutland & Melton)
Charlie Elphicke (Dover)*
Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley)
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield)
Mark Field (Cities of London & Westminster)
Liam Fox (Somerset North)
Mark Francois (Rayleigh & Wickford)
Richard Fuller (Bedford)
Sir Edward Garnier (Harborough)
Mark Garnier (Wyre Forest)
James Gray (Wiltshire North)
Chris Grayling (Epsom & Ewell)
Damian Green (Ashford)
Ben Gummer (Ipswich)
Robert Halfon (Harlow)*
Greg Hands (Chelsea & Fulham)
Mark Harper (Forest of Dean)
Richard Harrington (Watford)
Simon Hart (Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire South)
John Hayes (South Holland & The Deepings)
Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry)
Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne & Sheppey)
Nick Herbert (Arundel & South Downs)
George Hollingbery (Meon Valley)
Philip Hollobone (Kettering)
Sir Gerald Howarth (Aldershot)
Bernard Jenkin (Harwich & Essex North)
Gareth Johnson (Dartford)*
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury & Atcham)
Simon Kirby (Brighton Kemptown)*
Greg Knight (Yorkshire East)*
Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne)
Edward Leigh (Gainsborough)*
Julian Lewis (New Forest East)
Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater & Somerset West)*
Karl McCartney (Lincoln)*
Anne Main (St Albans)
Stephen Metcalfe (Basildon South & Thurrock East)*
Nigel Mills (Amber Valley)
David Morris (Morecambe & Lunesdale)*
Sheryll Murray (Cornwall South East)
Bob Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst)
David Nuttall (Bury North)
Neil Parish (Tiverton & Honiton)
Mark Pawsey (Rugby)
Andrew Percy (Brigg & Goole)
Chris Pincher (Tamworth)
Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford)
John Redwood (Wokingham)
Jacob Rees-Mogg (Somerset North East)*
Andrew Rosindell (Romford)
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood)*
Mark Spencer (Sherwood)
John Stevenson (Carlisle)*
Bob Stewart (Beckenham)*
Iain Stewart (Milton Keynes South)*
Julian Sturdy (York Outer)
Robert Syms (Poole)
Elizabeth Truss (Norfolk South West)*
Andrew Tyrie (Chichester)*
Charles Walker (Broxbourne)*
Ben Wallace (Wyre & Preston North)
Dame Angela Watkinson (Hornchurch & Upminster)
Heather Wheeler (Derbyshire South)
Craig Whittaker (Calder Valley)
John Whittingdale (Maldon)*
Bill Wiggin (Herefordshire North)

Jonathan Evans (Cardiff North) stood down before the election. Twelve lost their seats, including four (marked with an asterisk) who voted for an amendment to the smoking ban:

Angie Bray (Ealing Central & Acton)
Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase)*
Nick de Bois (Enfield North)
Charles Hendry (Wealden)
Anne McIntosh (Thirsk & Malton)*
Mary Macleod (Brentford & Isleworth)
Esther McVey (Wirral West)
Stephen Mosley (Chester, City of)*
Richard Ottaway (Croydon South)*
Jim Paice (Cambridgeshire South East)
Andrew Robathan (Leicestershire South)
Paul Uppal (Wolverhampton South West)

Three Labour MPs voted against plain packaging. Two (Stephen Hepburn and Alan Meale) were re-elected; one (Gerry Sutcliffe) retired.

Two Lib Dems voted against plain packaging. One (Jeremy Browne) retired; the other (Simon Hughes) lost his seat.

Both Ukip MPs in the last parliament voted against plain packaging. One (Douglas Carswell) was re-elected; the other (Mark Reckless) was defeated. As a Conservative MP Carswell also voted for an amendment to the smoking ban.

A further 40 re-elected MPs supported an amendment to the smoking ban. All are Conservative unless stated otherwise:

Richard Bacon
Steve Baker
Rehman Chishti
Oliver Colvile
Philip Davies
David Davis
Nigel Dodds (DUP)
Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP)
Mary Glindon (Labour)
Zac Goldsmith
Ben Gummer
Gordon Henderson
Damian Hinds
Sajid Javid
Joe Johnson
Kwasi Kwarteng
Pauline Latham
Peter Lilley
Jack Lopresti
Paul Maynard
Mark Menzies
Penny Mordaunt
Anne Marie Morris
David Morris
David Mowat
Greg Mulholland (Liberal Democrat)
Priti Patel
Toby Perkins (Labour)
Christopher Pincher
Laurence Robertson
Amber Rudd
Alec Shelbrooke
Henry Smith
Andrew Stephenson
Bob Stewart
Iain Stewart
Rory Stewart
Andrew Turner
Charles Walker
Craig Whittaker

In total therefore 134 candidates returned to parliament voted against plain packaging, in favour of an amendment to the smoking ban, or both.

All bar six are Conservatives.

How 'liberal' the new intake is remains to be seen but we'll find out soon enough.

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