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Ed Miliband vs Lee Anderson

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

Photograph of Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband
Lab Doncaster North
vs
Photograph of Lee Anderson
Lee Anderson
RUK Ashfield

Voting alignment

Ed Miliband and Lee Anderson voted the same way 4% of the time, based on 687 shared comparable votes.

30 same votes 657 different votes 687 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
10 Aye 15 No
Benefits 8% aligned 25 shared votes
13 Aye 12 No
13 Aye 2 No
Education 7% aligned 15 shared votes
3 Aye 12 No
8 Aye 15 No
Transport 4% aligned 23 shared votes
16 Aye 7 No
21 Aye 5 No
Energy 4% aligned 26 shared votes
6 Aye 20 No
15 Aye 14 No
NHS / Health 3% aligned 29 shared votes
15 Aye 14 No
Most different by topic
23 Aye 79 No
Migration 0% aligned 102 shared votes
79 Aye 23 No
19 Aye 23 No
Brexit / EU 0% aligned 42 shared votes
23 Aye 19 No
18 Aye 12 No
Defence 0% aligned 30 shared votes
12 Aye 18 No
13 Aye 17 No
Trade 0% aligned 30 shared votes
17 Aye 13 No
18 Aye 12 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 30 shared votes
12 Aye 18 No

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

Voting record

55.0%
18% below average
Rank 607 of 649
Participation
75.2%
3% above average
Rank 306 of 649
1,307
2,376 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,247
1,658 eligible divisions
724
55.4% of votes cast
Aye votes
626
50.2% of votes cast
583
44.6% of votes cast
No votes
621
49.8% of votes cast
1
0.1% of votes cast
Against party
10
0.8% of votes cast
21 years, 5 months
Since 5 May 2005
Commons service
6 years, 9 months
Since 12 Dec 2019

Debates

58
-25.6 vs Commons average
Rank 394 of 650
Appearances
57
-26.6 vs Commons average
Rank 403 of 650
662
+516.3 vs Commons average
Rank 10 of 650
Contributions
80
-65.7 vs Commons average
Rank 407 of 650

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

Financials and interests

£2,453,042
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£1,149,279
all imported IPSA years
£221,136
2% below average
Latest expenses
£264,074
17% above average
0
0 registered categories
Registered interests
9
4 registered categories
2
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
0
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
171 of 211 votes
#1
Trade
53 of 53 votes
Migration
129 of 171 votes
#2
Foreign Affairs
50 of 50 votes
Environment / Climate
36 of 48 votes
#3
Brexit / EU
59 of 63 votes
NHS / Health
38 of 56 votes
#4
NHS / Health
42 of 47 votes
Trade
60 of 91 votes
#5
Migration
134 of 154 votes

Recent voting overlap

Where they voted differently
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading 11 Sept 2026
No
Aye
Closure motion 11 Sept 2026
No
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
No
Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading 13 Jul 2026
Migration
Aye
Aye
Draft Climate Change Act 2008 (Credit Limit) Order 2026 24 Jun 2026
Environment / Climate
No
Aye
Draft Climate Change Act 2008 (International Aviation and International Shipping) Regulations 2026 24 Jun 2026
Environment / Climate Transport
No
Where they voted the same
Aye
Railways Bill: Second Reading 9 Dec 2025
Transport
Aye
Aye
Draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Definition of Newspaper) Order 2025 16 Jul 2025
Aye
Aye
Enterprise Act 2002 (Amendment of Section 58 Considerations) Order 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 737) 16 Jul 2025
Aye
No
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: New Clause 8 9 Jul 2025
Benefits
No
No
Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 39 9 Jul 2025
Benefits
No
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading 29 Nov 2024
Aye
Aye
Draft Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2023 13 Dec 2023
Aye
Aye
Draft Windsor Framework (Enforcement etc.) Regulations 2023 13 Sept 2023
Aye
Aye
Adjournment (Summer, Conference and Christmas Recess) 12 Jul 2023
Aye
No
Holocaust Memorial Bill: Instruction (Amendment a) 28 Jun 2023
No
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