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Gareth Bacon vs Michael Shanks

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


Voting alignment

Gareth Bacon and Michael Shanks voted the same way 3% of the time, based on 424 shared comparable votes.

13 same votes 411 different votes 424 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 1 No
NHS / Health 33% aligned 3 shared votes
2 Aye 1 No
3 Aye 2 No
Environment / Climate 20% aligned 5 shared votes
3 Aye 2 No
5 Aye 3 No
Democracy / Parliament 13% aligned 8 shared votes
2 Aye 6 No
5 Aye 15 No
Benefits 10% aligned 20 shared votes
13 Aye 7 No
22 Aye 9 No
Migration 10% aligned 31 shared votes
6 Aye 25 No
Most different by topic
30 Aye 52 No
Tax 0% aligned 82 shared votes
52 Aye 30 No
13 Aye 24 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 37 shared votes
24 Aye 13 No
10 Aye 21 No
Education 0% aligned 31 shared votes
21 Aye 10 No
21 Aye 1 No
Devolution / Local Government 0% aligned 22 shared votes
1 Aye 21 No
16 Aye 5 No
Defence 0% aligned 21 shared votes
5 Aye 16 No

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

Voting record

87.7%
15% above average
Rank 51 of 649
Participation
64.4%
8% below average
Rank 525 of 649
1,454
1,658 eligible divisions
Total votes
501
778 eligible divisions
714
49.1% of votes cast
Aye votes
236
47.1% of votes cast
740
50.9% of votes cast
No votes
265
52.9% of votes cast
5
0.3% of votes cast
Against party
5
1.0% of votes cast
6 years, 9 months
Since 12 Dec 2019
Commons service
2 years, 11 months
Since 5 Oct 2023

Debates

60
-22.3 vs Commons average
Rank 369 of 649
Appearances
99
+16.7 vs Commons average
Rank 170 of 649
79
-64.5 vs Commons average
Rank 400 of 649
Contributions
407
+263.5 vs Commons average
Rank 34 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£1,123,891
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£340,820
all imported IPSA years
£268,955
19% above average
Latest expenses
£272,859
21% above average
2
2 registered categories
Registered interests
4
1 registered category
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

Brexit / EU
63 of 63 votes
#1
Trade
13 of 14 votes
Trade
52 of 53 votes
#2
Benefits
27 of 31 votes
Work / Employment
64 of 67 votes
#3
Work / Employment
38 of 45 votes
Environment / Climate
42 of 44 votes
#4
Defence
28 of 34 votes
Democracy / Parliament
39 of 41 votes
#5
Energy
20 of 26 votes

Recent voting overlap

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