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Jeff Smith vs Sir John Hayes

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


Voting alignment

Jeff Smith and Sir John Hayes voted the same way 4% of the time, based on 1,270 shared comparable votes.

50 same votes 1,220 different votes 1,270 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 20 No
Democracy / Parliament 7% aligned 30 shared votes
18 Aye 12 No
18 Aye 29 No
Transport 4% aligned 47 shared votes
31 Aye 16 No
20 Aye 5 No
Digital / Online Safety 4% aligned 25 shared votes
6 Aye 19 No
18 Aye 11 No
NHS / Health 3% aligned 29 shared votes
12 Aye 17 No
64 Aye 62 No
Crime / Justice 3% aligned 126 shared votes
64 Aye 62 No
Most different by topic
20 Aye 29 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 49 shared votes
29 Aye 20 No
32 Aye 16 No
Education 0% aligned 48 shared votes
16 Aye 32 No
26 Aye 21 No
Defence 0% aligned 47 shared votes
21 Aye 26 No
29 Aye 18 No
Housing 0% aligned 47 shared votes
18 Aye 29 No
29 Aye 12 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 41 shared votes
12 Aye 29 No

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

Voting record

79.6%
7% above average
Rank 208 of 649
Participation
81.9%
9% above average
Rank 160 of 649
1,891
2,376 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,945
2,376 eligible divisions
1,028
54.4% of votes cast
Aye votes
919
47.2% of votes cast
863
45.6% of votes cast
No votes
1,026
52.8% of votes cast
8
0.4% of votes cast
Against party
25
1.3% of votes cast
11 years, 5 months
Since 7 May 2015
Commons service
29 years, 5 months
Since 1 May 1997

Debates

55
-28.7 vs Commons average
Rank 421 of 649
Appearances
113
+29.3 vs Commons average
Rank 134 of 649
71
-74.9 vs Commons average
Rank 442 of 649
Contributions
229
+83.1 vs Commons average
Rank 107 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£2,112,426
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,932,645
all imported IPSA years
£284,126
26% above average
Latest expenses
£280,368
24% above average
4
2 registered categories
Registered interests
4
3 registered categories
1
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
2
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

Housing
62 of 67 votes
#1
Brexit / EU
202 of 211 votes
Democracy / Parliament
43 of 47 votes
#2
Foreign Affairs
64 of 69 votes
NHS / Health
51 of 56 votes
#3
Environment / Climate
44 of 48 votes
Foreign Affairs
61 of 69 votes
#4
Housing
60 of 67 votes
Environment / Climate
42 of 48 votes
#5
Trade
78 of 91 votes

Recent voting overlap

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