Written request for special meeting
Full council, 26 September 2025: a named vote between a motion and an amendment.
For the motion 17, For the amendment 22, Abstained 0.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: No overall control. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For the motion (17)
- Deena Tissera (Labour)
- Gordon Graham (Labour)
- Jennifer Bonsell (Labour)
- Kate Blake (Labour)
- Lynn Thomson (Labour)
- M. Tauqeer Malik (Labour)
- Ross Grant (Labour)
- Sandra Macdonald (Labour)
- Simon Watson (Labour)
- Emma Farquhar (Conservative)
- Ken McLeod (Conservative)
- Michael Kusznir (Conservative)
- Richard Brooks (Conservative)
- Ryan Houghton (Conservative)
- Sarah Cross (Conservative)
- Alex Nicoll (Independent)
- Duncan Massey (Reform UK)
For the amendment (22)
- Alexander McLellan (Scottish National Party)
- Alison Alphonse (Scottish National Party)
- Bill Cormie (Scottish National Party)
- Christian Allard (Scottish National Party)
- Ciarán McRae (Scottish National Party)
- David Cameron, the Lord Provost (Scottish National Party)
- Dell Henrickson (Scottish National Party)
- Derek Davidson (Scottish National Party)
- Donna Clark (Scottish National Party)
- Gill Al-Samarai (Scottish National Party)
- Hazel Cameron (Scottish National Party)
- Jessica Mennie (Scottish National Party)
- John Cooke (Scottish National Party)
- Kairin van Sweeden (Scottish National Party)
- Lee Fairfull (Scottish National Party)
- Michael Hutchison (Scottish National Party)
- Miranda Radley (Scottish National Party)
- Neil Copland (Scottish National Party)
- Neil MacGregor (Scottish National Party)
- Ian Yuill (Liberal Democrats)
- Martin Greig (Liberal Democrats)
- Steve Delaney, the Depute Provost (Liberal Democrats)
From the minutes
rhetoric that are threatening community cohesion. “We will work to ensure that Aberdeen remains a city that welcomes newcomers and treats them with dignity and respect.” On a division, there voted:- For the motion (17) - Councillors Blake, Bonsell, Brooks, Cross, Farquhar, Graham, Grant, Houghton, Kusznir, Macdonald, McLeod, Malik, Massey, Nicoll, Thomson, Tissera and Watson. For the amendment (22) - Lord Provost; Depute Provost; and Councillors Al-Samarai, Allard, Alphonse, Hazel Cameron, Clark, Cooke, Copland, Cormie, Davidson, Fairfull, Greig, Henrickson, Hutchison, MacGregor, McLellan, McRae, Mennie, Radley, van Sweeden and Yuill. The Council resolved:- (i) to adopt the amendment; and (ii) to note that the Executive Director - Families and Communities would circulate a log of
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