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Luke Pollard vs Alberto Costa

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


Voting alignment

Luke Pollard and Alberto Costa voted the same way 6% of the time, based on 1,220 shared comparable votes.

73 same votes 1,147 different votes 1,220 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
20 Aye 9 No
NHS / Health 7% aligned 29 shared votes
11 Aye 18 No
90 Aye 63 No
Brexit / EU 7% aligned 153 shared votes
65 Aye 88 No
18 Aye 15 No
Benefits 6% aligned 33 shared votes
13 Aye 20 No
29 Aye 9 No
Education 5% aligned 38 shared votes
11 Aye 27 No
9 Aye 10 No
Democracy / Parliament 5% aligned 19 shared votes
9 Aye 10 No
Most different by topic
35 Aye 21 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 56 shared votes
21 Aye 35 No
28 Aye 25 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 53 shared votes
25 Aye 28 No
23 Aye 24 No
Defence 0% aligned 47 shared votes
24 Aye 23 No
19 Aye 9 No
Housing 0% aligned 28 shared votes
9 Aye 19 No
14 Aye 1 No
Digital / Online Safety 0% aligned 15 shared votes
1 Aye 14 No

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

Voting record

69.3%
3% below average
Rank 443 of 649
Participation
81.1%
8% above average
Rank 179 of 649
1,469
2,121 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,927
2,376 eligible divisions
810
55.1% of votes cast
Aye votes
912
47.3% of votes cast
659
44.9% of votes cast
No votes
1,015
52.7% of votes cast
1
0.1% of votes cast
Against party
9
0.5% of votes cast
9 years, 3 months
Since 8 Jun 2017
Commons service
11 years, 4 months
Since 7 May 2015

Debates

71
-11.3 vs Commons average
Rank 306 of 649
Appearances
22
-60.3 vs Commons average
Rank 587 of 649
673
+529.5 vs Commons average
Rank 8 of 649
Contributions
23
-120.5 vs Commons average
Rank 594 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£1,926,010
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,033,867
all imported IPSA years
£309,067
37% above average
Latest expenses
£291,572
29% above average
2
1 registered category
Registered interests
29
7 registered categories
3
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
3
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

Foreign Affairs
61 of 69 votes
#1
Brexit / EU
199 of 211 votes
Migration
144 of 163 votes
#2
Foreign Affairs
64 of 69 votes
Brexit / EU
164 of 188 votes
#3
Environment / Climate
44 of 48 votes
Defence
58 of 71 votes
#4
Work / Employment
70 of 77 votes
Trade
71 of 87 votes
#5
Trade
80 of 91 votes

Recent voting overlap

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