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Kirsty Blackman vs Valerie Vaz
A side-by-side comparison of voting participation, party rebellion, topic focus, and recent voting overlap.
Voting alignment
Kirsty Blackman and Valerie Vaz voted the same way 92% of the time, based on 1,035 shared comparable votes.
948 same votes
87 different votes
1,035 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
Most different by topic
Topic alignment uses local topic tags, so a division can count towards more than one topic.
Voting record
56.0%
17% below average
Participation
76.7%
4% above average
1,328
2,372 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,819
2,372 eligible divisions
757
57.0% of votes cast
Aye votes
1,024
56.3% of votes cast
571
43.0% of votes cast
No votes
795
43.7% of votes cast
0
0.0% of votes cast
Against party
11
0.6% of votes cast
11 years, 4 months
Since 7 May 2015
Commons service
16 years, 4 months
Since 6 May 2010
Debates
91
+10.4 vs Commons average
Appearances
30
-50.6 vs Commons average
164
+23.5 vs Commons average
Contributions
16
-124.5 vs Commons average
Debate figures cover imported Hansard debate appearances from the last 12 months.
Financials and interests
£2,143,527
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,436,824
all imported IPSA years
£320,448
42% above average
Latest expenses
£218,663
3% below average
1
1 registered category
Registered interests
2
2 registered categories
3
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
Recent voting overlap
Where they voted differently
Where they voted the same
Aye
Aye
Aye
Aye
Member source
UK Parliament Members API
Voting source
Commons Votes API