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Barry Gardiner vs Hilary Benn
A side-by-side comparison of voting participation, party rebellion, topic focus, and recent voting overlap.
Voting alignment
Barry Gardiner and Hilary Benn voted the same way 99% of the time, based on 1,448 shared comparable votes.
1,434 same votes
14 different votes
1,448 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
67.0%
5% below average
Participation
77.4%
5% above average
1,601
2,391 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,850
2,391 eligible divisions
891
55.7% of votes cast
Aye votes
1,046
56.5% of votes cast
710
44.3% of votes cast
No votes
804
43.5% of votes cast
18
1.1% of votes cast
Against party
1
0.1% of votes cast
29 years, 5 months
Since 1 May 1997
Commons service
27 years, 4 months
Since 10 Jun 1999
Debates
55
-31.9 vs Commons average
Appearances
60
-26.9 vs Commons average
91
-60.4 vs Commons average
Contributions
406
+254.6 vs Commons average
Debate figures cover imported Hansard debate appearances from the last 12 months.
Financials and interests
£2,795,864
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,356,656
all imported IPSA years
£268,850
19% above average
Latest expenses
£185,324
18% below average
13
5 registered categories
Registered interests
2
2 registered categories
2
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
3
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
No
rebel
Aye
Where they voted the same
Aye
Aye
Member source
UK Parliament Members API
Voting source
Commons Votes API