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Angela Rayner vs Sir Christopher Chope

A side-by-side comparison of voting participation, party rebellion, topic focus, and recent voting overlap.

Photograph of Angela Rayner
Angela Rayner
Lab Ashton-under-Lyne
vs
Photograph of Sir Christopher Chope
Sir Christopher Chope
Con Christchurch

Voting alignment

Angela Rayner and Sir Christopher Chope voted the same way 4% of the time, based on 948 shared comparable votes.

41 same votes 907 different votes 948 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
5 Aye 7 No
Democracy / Parliament 17% aligned 12 shared votes
7 Aye 5 No
99 Aye 56 No
Brexit / EU 6% aligned 155 shared votes
53 Aye 102 No
23 Aye 15 No
Trade 5% aligned 38 shared votes
17 Aye 21 No
16 Aye 7 No
Energy 4% aligned 23 shared votes
6 Aye 17 No
22 Aye 4 No
Digital / Online Safety 4% aligned 26 shared votes
5 Aye 21 No
Most different by topic
22 Aye 80 No
Migration 0% aligned 102 shared votes
80 Aye 22 No
33 Aye 19 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 52 shared votes
19 Aye 33 No
16 Aye 14 No
Housing 0% aligned 30 shared votes
14 Aye 16 No
19 Aye 11 No
Transport 0% aligned 30 shared votes
11 Aye 19 No
12 Aye 10 No
Defence 0% aligned 22 shared votes
10 Aye 12 No

Topic alignment uses local topic tags, so a division can count towards more than one topic.

Voting record

66.4%
6% below average
Rank 495 of 649
Participation
59.3%
13% below average
Rank 579 of 649
1,577
2,376 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,409
2,376 eligible divisions
878
55.7% of votes cast
Aye votes
600
42.6% of votes cast
699
44.3% of votes cast
No votes
809
57.4% of votes cast
4
0.3% of votes cast
Against party
73
5.2% of votes cast
11 years, 5 months
Since 7 May 2015
Commons service
29 years, 5 months
Since 1 May 1997

Debates

28
-55.6 vs Commons average
Rank 568 of 650
Appearances
50
-33.6 vs Commons average
Rank 451 of 650
357
+211.3 vs Commons average
Rank 45 of 650
Contributions
43
-102.7 vs Commons average
Rank 537 of 650

Debate figures cover imported Hansard debate appearances from the last 12 months.

Financials and interests

£1,886,725
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,114,098
all imported IPSA years
£219,458
3% below average
Latest expenses
£249,241
10% above average
24
3 registered categories
Registered interests
5
3 registered categories
5
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
304
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

Foreign Affairs
64 of 69 votes
#1
Brexit / EU
192 of 211 votes
Brexit / EU
173 of 211 votes
#2
Foreign Affairs
55 of 69 votes
Democracy / Parliament
37 of 47 votes
#3
Migration
133 of 171 votes
Devolution / Local Government
51 of 66 votes
#4
Digital / Online Safety
45 of 60 votes
Work / Employment
59 of 77 votes
#5
Tax
220 of 322 votes

Recent voting overlap

Where they voted differently
No
Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading 10 Sept 2026
Housing
Aye
Aye
Draft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 9 Sept 2026
No
Aye
Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 15 Jul 2026
Trade Work / Employment
No
Aye
Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots 15 Jul 2026
Trade Work / Employment
No
No
Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19 14 Jul 2026
Aye
No
Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 199 14 Jul 2026
Aye
Aye
Draft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 8 Jul 2026
Education
No
Aye
Draft Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment etc.) and the EU Machinery Regulation (Enforcement etc. in Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 8 Jul 2026
No
Aye
Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 8 Jul 2026
No
Aye
Draft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2026 3 Jun 2026
No
Where they voted the same
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading 11 Sept 2026
No
No
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill Report Stage: New Clause 29 24 Nov 2025
Devolution / Local Government
No
No
Sentencing Bill Committee: New Clause 30 21 Oct 2025
Crime / Justice
No
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Third Reading 20 Jun 2025
No
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading 29 Nov 2024
No
No
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill Committee: New Clause 1 12 Nov 2024
Democracy / Parliament
No
Aye
Financial Markets and Services Bill Report Stage: New Clause 7 7 Dec 2022
Aye
Aye
Opposition Day: the State Pension triple lock 8 Nov 2022
Aye
No
Health and Social Care Levy Bill: Third Reading 14 Sept 2021
No
No
Health and Social Care Levy Bill: Second Reading 14 Sept 2021
No
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