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Bridget Phillipson vs John Lamont

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

Photograph of Bridget Phillipson
Bridget Phillipson
Lab Houghton and Sunderland South
vs
Photograph of John Lamont
John Lamont
Con Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

Voting alignment

Bridget Phillipson and John Lamont voted the same way 4% of the time, based on 1,049 shared comparable votes.

43 same votes 1,006 different votes 1,049 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
14 Aye 7 No
Benefits 5% aligned 21 shared votes
6 Aye 15 No
18 Aye 47 No
Migration 5% aligned 65 shared votes
44 Aye 21 No
15 Aye 7 No
NHS / Health 5% aligned 22 shared votes
8 Aye 14 No
33 Aye 12 No
Education 4% aligned 45 shared votes
14 Aye 31 No
14 Aye 10 No
Energy 4% aligned 24 shared votes
11 Aye 13 No
Most different by topic
30 Aye 28 No
Trade 0% aligned 58 shared votes
28 Aye 30 No
24 Aye 19 No
Transport 0% aligned 43 shared votes
19 Aye 24 No
26 Aye 16 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 42 shared votes
16 Aye 26 No
22 Aye 17 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 39 shared votes
17 Aye 22 No
20 Aye 15 No
Defence 0% aligned 35 shared votes
15 Aye 20 No

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

Voting record

56.2 %
16 % below average
Rank 600 of 649
Participation
85.0 %
12 % above average
Rank 97 of 649
1,328
2,361 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,790
2,106 eligible divisions
798
60.1 % of votes cast
Aye votes
864
48.3 % of votes cast
530
39.9 % of votes cast
No votes
926
51.7 % of votes cast
5
0.4 % of votes cast
Against party
9
0.5 % of votes cast
16 years, 3 months
Since 6 May 2010
Commons service
9 years, 2 months
Since 8 Jun 2017

Debates

80
+2.1 vs Commons average
Rank 238 of 650
Appearances
148
+70.1 vs Commons average
Rank 57 of 650
558
+419.7 vs Commons average
Rank 15 of 650
Contributions
236
+97.7 vs Commons average
Rank 92 of 650

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

Financials and interests

£2,958,445
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,045,465
all imported IPSA years
£276,480
22 % above average
Latest expenses
£334,363
48 % above average
13
2 registered categories
Registered interests
8
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

Brexit / EU
175 of 211 votes
#1
Trade
83 of 87 votes
Education
78 of 96 votes
#2
Brexit / EU
179 of 188 votes
Foreign Affairs
54 of 69 votes
#3
Digital / Online Safety
46 of 49 votes
Democracy / Parliament
31 of 43 votes
#4
Migration
150 of 163 votes
Trade
63 of 91 votes
#5
Crime / Justice
177 of 194 votes

Recent voting overlap

Where they voted differently
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
No
Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading 13 Jul 2026
Migration
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
National Security (State Threats) Bill: motion to agree to Lords Amendment 1 6 Jul 2026
Defence
No
Aye
Employment Tribunals Extension of Jurisdiction (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 2026 1 Jul 2026
No
Where they voted the same
No
King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (l) 20 May 2026
No
No
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: New Clause 8 9 Jul 2025
Benefits
No
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Third Reading 20 Jun 2025
No
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Report Stage: Amendment (a) to New Clause 10 16 May 2025
Aye
No
Closure motion 16 May 2025
No
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading 29 Nov 2024
No
Aye
the draft Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions) (Amendment) Order 2024 24 Apr 2024
Aye
Aye
Tobacco and Vapes Bill: Second Reading 16 Apr 2024
NHS / Health
Aye
No
Motion to sit in private 21 Feb 2024
Tax
No
No
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill Committee: Amendment 23 17 Jan 2024
Migration
No
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