More Tory MPs Voted Against Gay Marriage Than For

More Conservative MPs voted against gay marriage than more during yesterday’s vote in the House of Commons on the Marriage (Same Sex couples) Bill.

After a lengthy debate in the House of Commons MPs voted in favour of allowing gay and lesbian couples in the England and Wales to marry. In all 400 MPs voted in favour while 175 voted against the government; the bill was passed with a majority of 225.

Now details of how each MP voted have emerged and it has been revealed that more Conservative MPs voted against the bill than for it; 134 MPs voted against with 126 voting in favour.

The issue of gay marriage divided the Conservative Party but the ring-wing press were predicting as many as 180 MPs within the party would vote against the government. In the end the figure was significantly lower at 134 but that still puts a large part of the Tory party at odds with its leader David Cameron.

Conservative MPs were not the only ones to vote against gay marriage; a small number of Labour and Liberal Democrats also voted against the bill.