How did your MP vote on Boris Johnson's plan for snap election?
There could still be a date for a general election by the end of the week as two new bills will be brought to the Commons.
Tuesday 29 October 2019 07:43, UK
Boris Johnson has failed to gain enough support for an early general election on 12 December.
Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, the prime minister needed two-thirds of the Commons' support, 434 MPs, to get an election.
With Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn whipping his MPs to abstain on the vote, Mr Johnson won, by 299 to 70, but failed to get enough votes for the motion to pass.
But there could still be a general election called by the end of the week, thanks to plans by Mr Johnson for a one-line bill which would require a simple majority of MPs to pass to call an election.
It replicates the SNP and Liberal Democrats attempts to call an election on their own terms, which will be brought to the Commons on Tuesday.