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Lucy Powell vs Bob Blackman

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


Voting alignment

Lucy Powell and Bob Blackman voted the same way 4% of the time, based on 1,417 shared comparable votes.

58 same votes 1,359 different votes 1,417 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
24 Aye 9 No
NHS / Health 15% aligned 33 shared votes
14 Aye 19 No
31 Aye 32 No
Trade 8% aligned 63 shared votes
31 Aye 32 No
27 Aye 17 No
Benefits 5% aligned 44 shared votes
15 Aye 29 No
9 Aye 14 No
Democracy / Parliament 4% aligned 23 shared votes
13 Aye 10 No
19 Aye 8 No
Environment / Climate 4% aligned 27 shared votes
9 Aye 18 No
Most different by topic
29 Aye 31 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 60 shared votes
31 Aye 29 No
35 Aye 18 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 53 shared votes
18 Aye 35 No
28 Aye 19 No
Defence 0% aligned 47 shared votes
19 Aye 28 No
6 Aye 18 No
Devolution / Local Government 0% aligned 24 shared votes
18 Aye 6 No
3 Aye 0 No
Cost of Living 0% aligned 3 shared votes
0 Aye 3 No

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

Voting record

65.9%
7% below average
Rank 503 of 649
Participation
87.7%
15% above average
Rank 50 of 649
1,566
2,376 eligible divisions
Total votes
2,084
2,376 eligible divisions
879
56.1% of votes cast
Aye votes
979
47.0% of votes cast
687
43.9% of votes cast
No votes
1,105
53.0% of votes cast
0
0.0% of votes cast
Against party
54
2.6% of votes cast
13 years, 10 months
Since 15 Nov 2012
Commons service
16 years, 5 months
Since 6 May 2010

Debates

17
-66.7 vs Commons average
Rank 606 of 649
Appearances
152
+68.3 vs Commons average
Rank 68 of 649
147
+1.1 vs Commons average
Rank 213 of 649
Contributions
180
+34.1 vs Commons average
Rank 161 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£2,427,436
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£3,032,116
all imported IPSA years
£250,940
11% above average
Latest expenses
£312,612
38% above average
13
5 registered categories
Registered interests
9
6 registered categories
1
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
8
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

Work / Employment
67 of 77 votes
#1
Brexit / EU
211 of 211 votes
Education
82 of 96 votes
#2
Foreign Affairs
69 of 69 votes
Brexit / EU
172 of 211 votes
#3
Trade
87 of 91 votes
Foreign Affairs
53 of 69 votes
#4
Defence
66 of 71 votes
Defence
51 of 71 votes
#5
Digital / Online Safety
55 of 60 votes

Recent voting overlap

Where they voted differently
Aye
Closure motion 11 Sept 2026
No
Where they voted the same
Member source UK Parliament Members API
Voting source Commons Votes API