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Ben Lake vs Nick Thomas-Symonds
A side-by-side comparison of voting participation, party rebellion, topic focus, and recent voting overlap.
Voting alignment
Ben Lake and Nick Thomas-Symonds voted the same way 91% of the time, based on 1,095 shared comparable votes.
1,000 same votes
95 different votes
1,095 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
75.8 %
3 % above average
Participation
62.8 %
10 % below average
1,575
2,078 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,465
2,333 eligible divisions
874
55.5 % of votes cast
Aye votes
843
57.5 % of votes cast
701
44.5 % of votes cast
No votes
622
42.5 % of votes cast
1
0.1 % of votes cast
Against party
10
0.7 % of votes cast
9 years, 0 months
Since 8 Jun 2017
Commons service
11 years, 1 months
Since 7 May 2015
Debates
60
-6.4 vs Commons average
Appearances
39
-27.4 vs Commons average
63
-55.0 vs Commons average
Contributions
266
+148.0 vs Commons average
Debate figures cover imported Hansard debate appearances from the last 12 months.
Financials and interests
£1,460,196
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,131,457
all imported IPSA years
£250,650
11 % above average
Latest expenses
£255,367
13 % above average
0
0 registered categories
Registered interests
5
3 registered categories
2
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
1
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
Where they voted the same
Member source
UK Parliament Members API
Voting source
Commons Votes API