Monthly Commons digest
October 2025: the Commons month in review
Ayes and Noes · compiled from official UK Parliament data
Published 31 October 2025 2 min read
October 2025 reversed the previous month's pattern. Of 29 divisions across seven sitting days, just four were carried and 25 rejected, with around 13,400 votes cast.
Crime and justice was the most divided-on subject, tagged to fifteen votes. Rebellions were light, at eleven votes against party majorities.
29
Divisions
4
Passed
25
Rejected
13,400
Votes cast
Activity through the month
Recorded divisions per sitting day (hover a bar for the date).
Bars show sitting days on which the Commons divided; the axis numbers are divisions held.
Notable divisions
Closest result — rejected by 58 votes
European Convention on Human Rights (withdrawal): Ten Minute Rule Motion
29 Oct 2025 · Ayes 96 / Noes 154
Largest rebellion — 3 MPs voted against their party majority
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: Amendment 9
20 Oct 2025 · Ayes 83 / Noes 319
What was debated
Topics by number of divisions tagged (locally derived).
Rebellions
11 votes were cast against an MP's own party majority this month.
Largest rebellion — 3 MPs voted against their party majority
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: Amendment 9
20 Oct 2025
Most active MPs
By recorded votes cast this month (a participation measure, not a judgement of effectiveness). Party shown as at the time.
Early Day Motions
238 new Early Day Motions were tabled this month.
Most signed — 121 signatures
Buying community energy locally
EDM 2151 · tabled by Abtisam Mohamed