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Cat Smith vs Steve Barclay

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


Voting alignment

Cat Smith and Steve Barclay voted the same way 5% of the time, based on 1,257 shared comparable votes.

64 same votes 1,193 different votes 1,257 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
19 Aye 9 No
NHS / Health 11% aligned 28 shared votes
12 Aye 16 No
95 Aye 65 No
Brexit / EU 8% aligned 160 shared votes
68 Aye 92 No
25 Aye 29 No
Transport 6% aligned 54 shared votes
32 Aye 22 No
63 Aye 68 No
Crime / Justice 5% aligned 131 shared votes
69 Aye 62 No
35 Aye 19 No
Education 4% aligned 54 shared votes
21 Aye 33 No
Most different by topic
23 Aye 20 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 43 shared votes
20 Aye 23 No
23 Aye 19 No
Defence 0% aligned 42 shared votes
19 Aye 23 No
16 Aye 22 No
Trade 0% aligned 38 shared votes
22 Aye 16 No
14 Aye 17 No
Environment / Climate 0% aligned 31 shared votes
17 Aye 14 No
6 Aye 22 No
Devolution / Local Government 0% aligned 28 shared votes
22 Aye 6 No

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

Voting record

72.5%
same as average
Rank 367 of 649
Participation
71.5%
1% below average
Rank 394 of 649
1,723
2,376 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,699
2,376 eligible divisions
931
54.0% of votes cast
Aye votes
811
47.7% of votes cast
792
46.0% of votes cast
No votes
888
52.3% of votes cast
5
0.3% of votes cast
Against party
4
0.2% of votes cast
11 years, 4 months
Since 7 May 2015
Commons service
16 years, 4 months
Since 6 May 2010

Debates

19
-63.3 vs Commons average
Rank 597 of 649
Appearances
83
+0.7 vs Commons average
Rank 243 of 649
25
-118.5 vs Commons average
Rank 591 of 649
Contributions
123
-20.5 vs Commons average
Rank 259 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£2,077,786
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,422,084
all imported IPSA years
£260,697
15% above average
Latest expenses
£231,894
3% above average
1
1 registered category
Registered interests
4
4 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

Foreign Affairs
63 of 69 votes
#1
Brexit / EU
192 of 211 votes
NHS / Health
48 of 56 votes
#2
Environment / Climate
42 of 48 votes
Migration
145 of 171 votes
#3
Migration
138 of 171 votes
Brexit / EU
178 of 211 votes
#4
Democracy / Parliament
39 of 47 votes
#5
Crime / Justice
173 of 230 votes

Recent voting overlap

Where they voted differently
Where they voted the same
Member source UK Parliament Members API
Voting source Commons Votes API