Mr Alistair Carmichael
Liberal Democrat

Mr Alistair Carmichael

MP for Orkney and Shetland

Leasehold voting score

100.0% pro-leaseholder

Mr Alistair Carmichael voted the pro-leaseholder way in 7 of the 7 tracked leasehold divisions they took part in — a consistently pro-leaseholder voting record.

Score = servicecharges.ai's editorial interpretation, not a statement of fact.

Separate signal · not part of the grade

Votes on housing matters next to leasehold — private renting (the Renters' Rights Bill) and building-safety/cladding costs. These are not leasehold-reform votes and are not counted in the A–F leasehold grade; we show them as extra context.

Mr Alistair Carmichael voted the leaseholder-aligned way in 8 of 11 related housing votes they took part in.

DateRelated housing divisionHow they voted
9 Oct 2024 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading An opposition amendment that would have declined to give the Renters' Rights Bill (which abolishes 'no-fault' Section 21 evictions) a second reading. It was defeated. Voting No backed letting the tenant-protection bill proceed. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: No Voted No✓ pro-leaseholder
14 Jan 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — Report Stage: Government New Clause 14 A government clause added to the Renters' Rights Bill at report stage. Voting Aye supported strengthening the bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Did not vote
14 Jan 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — Third Reading The final Commons vote to pass the Renters' Rights Bill — ending 'no-fault' evictions and strengthening renters' rights. Voting Aye passed the bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 11 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change to the Renters' Rights Bill and keep the tenant protections the Commons had passed. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 18 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change and keep the Commons version of the Renters' Rights Bill. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 19 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change and keep the Commons version of the Renters' Rights Bill. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted No✗ not pro-leaseholder
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 26 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change and keep the Commons version of the Renters' Rights Bill. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 39 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change and keep the Commons version of the Renters' Rights Bill. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted No✗ not pro-leaseholder
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 53 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change and keep the Commons version of the Renters' Rights Bill. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Did not vote
8 Sep 2025 Renters' Rights Act 2025 Renters' Rights Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 64 A government motion to reject a House of Lords change and keep the Commons version of the Renters' Rights Bill. Voting Aye kept the Commons bill. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: Aye Voted No✗ not pro-leaseholder
24 Feb 2021 Fire Safety Act 2021 Fire Safety Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2 The Conservative government moved to strike out a House of Lords amendment that would have stopped the cost of fixing fire-safety and cladding defects being passed on to leaseholders. Voting No opposed the government and backed protecting leaseholders from those costs. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: No Voted No✓ pro-leaseholder
22 Mar 2021 Fire Safety Act 2021 Fire Safety Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendments 4B–4E (the 'McPartland–Smith' leaseholder protections) Another round of the same fight: the government moved to reject Lords amendments shielding leaseholders from cladding-remediation bills. Voting No backed protecting leaseholders. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: No Voted No✓ pro-leaseholder
28 Apr 2021 Fire Safety Act 2021 Fire Safety Bill — motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 4L The final Commons round on the Fire Safety Bill: the government again moved to reject leaseholder protection from remediation costs. Voting No backed protecting leaseholders. Leaseholder-aligned lobby: No Voted No✓ pro-leaseholder
Why these are shown separately

The leasehold A–F grade is built only from divisions specifically on leasehold reform. Renters' Rights and building-safety votes concern renters and building-safety costs — related and relevant, but a different question — so we keep them in this separate lane with their own simple tally and never let them move the leasehold grade. As with the grade, the votes are fact and the "leaseholder-aligned" direction is our editorial reading.

The votes behind the leasehold grade

Every division is a recorded House of Commons vote (the fact); the "pro-leaseholder lobby" and grade are our editorial reading (the interpretation). We only count divisions this MP actually voted in.

DateDivision (recorded vote)How they voted
27 Feb 2024 Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill — Report Stage: Amendment 8 An opposition amendment to strengthen leaseholder protections in the reform bill. The government voted it down. Pro-leaseholder lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
27 Feb 2024 Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill — Report Stage: Amendment 4 An opposition amendment to give leaseholders more of the bill's protections. The government voted it down. Pro-leaseholder lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
27 Feb 2024 Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill — Report Stage: New Clause 39 A proposed new clause adding further leaseholder protection to the reform bill. The government voted it down. Pro-leaseholder lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
27 Feb 2024 Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill — Report Stage: New Clause 5 A proposed new clause to expand leaseholder rights under the reform bill. The government voted it down. Pro-leaseholder lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
23 May 2023 Opposition Day (Leasehold) Opposition Day motion — Leasehold reform An opposition motion calling on the government to bring forward stronger leasehold reform. Voting Aye backed faster, tougher reform. Pro-leaseholder lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
24 Jan 2022 Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [Lords] — Report Stage: New Clause 1 A proposed new clause to extend the peppercorn (effectively zero) ground-rent protection to existing leaseholders, not just new leases. The government voted it down. Pro-leaseholder lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
19 Jan 2022 Building Safety Act 2022 Building Safety Bill — Report Stage: New Clause 3 A proposed new clause to protect leaseholders from the cost of fixing fire-safety and cladding defects they did not cause. The government voted it down. Pro-leaseholder lobby: Aye Voted Aye✓ pro-leaseholder
How we calculate the leasehold grade

Grade = the number of tracked leasehold-reform divisions where the MP voted with the pro-leaseholder lobby, divided by the number of those divisions they actually voted in, as a percentage and a letter grade (A–F). MPs who voted in fewer than three tracked divisions are shown as "limited record" rather than graded, and absences are never counted against an MP. Renters' Rights and building-safety votes are deliberately kept out of this grade and shown in the separate "Related housing votes" lane. The tracked divisions are curated and reviewed by ServiceCharges.AI.

Relevant registered interests

Property and landlord-related entries from this MP's entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Shown for context; a registered interest is a matter of public record, not an allegation.

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Voting record compiled 14 Jul 2026.