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Esther McVey vs Gill Furniss

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


Voting alignment

Esther McVey and Gill Furniss voted the same way 5% of the time, based on 983 shared comparable votes.

48 same votes 935 different votes 983 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
2 Aye 8 No
NHS / Health 20% aligned 10 shared votes
6 Aye 4 No
13 Aye 10 No
Benefits 13% aligned 23 shared votes
7 Aye 16 No
39 Aye 45 No
Crime / Justice 7% aligned 84 shared votes
47 Aye 37 No
8 Aye 11 No
Democracy / Parliament 5% aligned 19 shared votes
10 Aye 9 No
17 Aye 22 No
Transport 5% aligned 39 shared votes
24 Aye 15 No
Most different by topic
22 Aye 36 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 58 shared votes
36 Aye 22 No
22 Aye 28 No
Defence 0% aligned 50 shared votes
28 Aye 22 No
23 Aye 22 No
Trade 0% aligned 45 shared votes
22 Aye 23 No
17 Aye 12 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 29 shared votes
12 Aye 17 No
9 Aye 18 No
Education 0% aligned 27 shared votes
18 Aye 9 No

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

Voting record

64.7%
8% below average
Rank 522 of 649
Participation
71.3%
1% below average
Rank 400 of 649
1,373
2,121 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,658
2,325 eligible divisions
630
45.9% of votes cast
Aye votes
912
55.0% of votes cast
743
54.1% of votes cast
No votes
746
45.0% of votes cast
54
3.9% of votes cast
Against party
12
0.7% of votes cast
9 years, 3 months
Since 8 Jun 2017
Commons service
10 years, 4 months
Since 5 May 2016

Debates

108
+25.7 vs Commons average
Rank 141 of 649
Appearances
41
-41.3 vs Commons average
Rank 499 of 649
159
+15.5 vs Commons average
Rank 182 of 649
Contributions
37
-106.5 vs Commons average
Rank 559 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£2,413,915
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,125,000
all imported IPSA years
£295,931
31% above average
Latest expenses
£322,640
43% above average
7
3 registered categories
Registered interests
2
2 registered categories
1
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

Foreign Affairs
62 of 69 votes
#1
Foreign Affairs
65 of 69 votes
Brexit / EU
164 of 188 votes
#2
Defence
63 of 71 votes
Digital / Online Safety
39 of 49 votes
#3
Brexit / EU
181 of 211 votes
Trade
68 of 87 votes
#4
Housing
51 of 62 votes
Transport
67 of 88 votes
#5
Environment / Climate
38 of 48 votes

Recent voting overlap

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