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Alex Sobel vs Gareth Thomas
A side-by-side comparison of voting participation, party rebellion, topic focus, and recent voting overlap.
Voting alignment
Alex Sobel and Gareth Thomas voted the same way 100% of the time, based on 1,206 shared comparable votes.
1,203 same votes
3 different votes
1,206 shared votes
Alignment only includes divisions where both MPs recorded an Aye or No vote. Tellers, absences, abstentions, and missing votes are excluded.
Topic alignment
Closest by topic
Most different by topic
Topic alignment uses local topic tags, so a division can count towards more than one topic.
Voting record
71.7%
1% below average
Participation
66.5%
6% below average
1,520
2,119 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,579
2,374 eligible divisions
824
54.2% of votes cast
Aye votes
895
56.7% of votes cast
696
45.8% of votes cast
No votes
684
43.3% of votes cast
6
0.4% of votes cast
Against party
1
0.1% of votes cast
9 years, 3 months
Since 8 Jun 2017
Commons service
29 years, 4 months
Since 1 May 1997
Debates
107
+25.3 vs Commons average
Appearances
42
-39.7 vs Commons average
135
-7.2 vs Commons average
Contributions
47
-95.2 vs Commons average
Debate figures cover imported Hansard debate appearances from the last 12 months.
Financials and interests
£2,003,453
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,854,227
all imported IPSA years
£328,194
45% above average
Latest expenses
£293,113
30% above average
11
3 registered categories
Registered interests
1
1 registered category
2
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
14
matched sponsored bills
Expenses use IPSA totals for financial year 2024-25. Sponsored bill counts depend on currently imported bill sponsor metadata.
Most active voting topics
Recent voting overlap
Where they voted differently
Aye
rebel
No
Aye
rebel
No
Where they voted the same
Member source
UK Parliament Members API
Voting source
Commons Votes API