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Matt Western vs Suella Braverman

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


Voting alignment

Matt Western and Suella Braverman voted the same way 5% of the time, based on 1,091 shared comparable votes.

50 same votes 1,041 different votes 1,091 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
11 Aye 8 No
Benefits 5% aligned 19 shared votes
9 Aye 10 No
19 Aye 7 No
Education 4% aligned 26 shared votes
8 Aye 18 No
22 Aye 4 No
Energy 4% aligned 26 shared votes
5 Aye 21 No
87 Aye 58 No
Brexit / EU 3% aligned 145 shared votes
53 Aye 92 No
21 Aye 15 No
NHS / Health 3% aligned 36 shared votes
16 Aye 20 No
Most different by topic
30 Aye 16 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 46 shared votes
16 Aye 30 No
24 Aye 21 No
Transport 0% aligned 45 shared votes
21 Aye 24 No
24 Aye 21 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 45 shared votes
21 Aye 24 No
17 Aye 16 No
Environment / Climate 0% aligned 33 shared votes
16 Aye 17 No
14 Aye 15 No
Defence 0% aligned 29 shared votes
15 Aye 14 No

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

Voting record

74.1%
1% above average
Rank 331 of 649
Participation
68.5%
4% below average
Rank 453 of 649
1,571
2,121 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,627
2,376 eligible divisions
877
55.8% of votes cast
Aye votes
765
47.0% of votes cast
694
44.2% of votes cast
No votes
862
53.0% of votes cast
4
0.3% of votes cast
Against party
22
1.4% of votes cast
9 years, 3 months
Since 8 Jun 2017
Commons service
11 years, 4 months
Since 7 May 2015

Debates

93
+10.7 vs Commons average
Rank 198 of 649
Appearances
59
-23.3 vs Commons average
Rank 378 of 649
109
-34.5 vs Commons average
Rank 310 of 649
Contributions
73
-70.5 vs Commons average
Rank 428 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£1,940,185
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£1,671,241
all imported IPSA years
£312,296
38% above average
Latest expenses
£240,275
6% above average
4
3 registered categories
Registered interests
7
3 registered categories
3
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
4
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
66 of 69 votes
#1
Brexit / EU
194 of 211 votes
Migration
147 of 163 votes
#2
Environment / Climate
38 of 48 votes
Democracy / Parliament
39 of 44 votes
#3
Trade
72 of 91 votes
Brexit / EU
165 of 188 votes
#4
Foreign Affairs
54 of 69 votes
Environment / Climate
39 of 46 votes
#5
NHS / Health
43 of 56 votes

Recent voting overlap

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