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Jeff Smith vs Wera Hobhouse

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


Voting alignment

Jeff Smith and Wera Hobhouse voted the same way 76% of the time, based on 1,093 shared comparable votes.

829 same votes 264 different votes 1,093 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
63 Aye 29 No
Brexit / EU 100% aligned 92 shared votes
63 Aye 29 No
29 Aye 9 No
Foreign Affairs 97% aligned 38 shared votes
28 Aye 10 No
19 Aye 82 No
Migration 96% aligned 101 shared votes
19 Aye 82 No
19 Aye 2 No
Digital / Online Safety 95% aligned 21 shared votes
18 Aye 3 No
16 Aye 14 No
Environment / Climate 93% aligned 30 shared votes
16 Aye 14 No
Most different by topic
28 Aye 9 No
Education 22% aligned 37 shared votes
15 Aye 22 No
23 Aye 18 No
Work / Employment 46% aligned 41 shared votes
11 Aye 30 No
95 Aye 42 No
Tax 51% aligned 137 shared votes
76 Aye 61 No
11 Aye 28 No
Devolution / Local Government 54% aligned 39 shared votes
7 Aye 32 No
24 Aye 20 No
Defence 55% aligned 44 shared votes
26 Aye 18 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
73.3%
1% above average
Rank 353 of 649
1,891
2,376 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,554
2,121 eligible divisions
1,028
54.4% of votes cast
Aye votes
844
54.3% of votes cast
863
45.6% of votes cast
No votes
710
45.7% of votes cast
8
0.4% of votes cast
Against party
1
0.1% of votes cast
11 years, 4 months
Since 7 May 2015
Commons service
9 years, 3 months
Since 8 Jun 2017

Debates

55
-28.7 vs Commons average
Rank 421 of 649
Appearances
147
+63.3 vs Commons average
Rank 72 of 649
71
-74.9 vs Commons average
Rank 442 of 649
Contributions
209
+63.1 vs Commons average
Rank 128 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
£1,835,401
all imported IPSA years
£284,126
26% above average
Latest expenses
£306,189
35% above average
4
2 registered categories
Registered interests
7
5 registered categories
1
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
12
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
Democracy / Parliament
43 of 47 votes
#2
Brexit / EU
170 of 188 votes
NHS / Health
51 of 56 votes
#3
Foreign Affairs
61 of 69 votes
Foreign Affairs
61 of 69 votes
#4
Defence
60 of 71 votes
Environment / Climate
42 of 48 votes
#5
Trade
70 of 87 votes

Recent voting overlap

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