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Mark Sewards vs Simon Hoare

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


Voting alignment

Mark Sewards and Simon Hoare voted the same way 4% of the time, based on 295 shared comparable votes.

11 same votes 284 different votes 295 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
1 Aye 3 No
NHS / Health 25% aligned 4 shared votes
4 Aye 0 No
2 Aye 4 No
Migration 17% aligned 6 shared votes
3 Aye 3 No
4 Aye 9 No
Benefits 15% aligned 13 shared votes
7 Aye 6 No
4 Aye 5 No
Democracy / Parliament 11% aligned 9 shared votes
4 Aye 5 No
7 Aye 4 No
Energy 9% aligned 11 shared votes
5 Aye 6 No
Most different by topic
38 Aye 36 No
Tax 0% aligned 74 shared votes
36 Aye 38 No
10 Aye 15 No
Defence 0% aligned 25 shared votes
15 Aye 10 No
15 Aye 7 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 22 shared votes
7 Aye 15 No
11 Aye 7 No
Education 0% aligned 18 shared votes
7 Aye 11 No
10 Aye 7 No
Housing 0% aligned 17 shared votes
7 Aye 10 No

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

Voting record

78.0%
5% above average
Rank 243 of 649
Participation
74.5%
2% above average
Rank 324 of 649
460
590 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,769
2,376 eligible divisions
214
46.5% of votes cast
Aye votes
829
46.9% of votes cast
246
53.5% of votes cast
No votes
940
53.1% of votes cast
0
0.0% of votes cast
Against party
46
2.6% of votes cast
2 years, 3 months
Since 4 Jul 2024
Commons service
11 years, 5 months
Since 7 May 2015

Debates

165
+81.4 vs Commons average
Rank 48 of 650
Appearances
100
+16.4 vs Commons average
Rank 168 of 650
176
+30.3 vs Commons average
Rank 165 of 650
Contributions
129
-16.7 vs Commons average
Rank 246 of 650

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

Financials and interests

£200,003
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,084,672
all imported IPSA years
£200,003
12% below average
Latest expenses
£272,934
21% above average
7
3 registered categories
Registered interests
3
3 registered categories
0
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
1
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

Democracy / Parliament
14 of 14 votes
#1
Brexit / EU
193 of 211 votes
Migration
13 of 13 votes
#2
NHS / Health
11 of 11 votes
#3
Transport
79 of 95 votes
Defence
33 of 34 votes
#4
Energy
58 of 70 votes
Benefits
28 of 30 votes
#5
Tax
257 of 322 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