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Mike Martin vs Peter Dowd

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


Voting alignment

Mike Martin and Peter Dowd voted the same way 17% of the time, based on 263 shared comparable votes.

44 same votes 219 different votes 263 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
9 Aye 1 No
Energy 70% aligned 10 shared votes
8 Aye 2 No
3 Aye 3 No
Democracy / Parliament 67% aligned 6 shared votes
1 Aye 5 No
8 Aye 3 No
Benefits 55% aligned 11 shared votes
3 Aye 8 No
4 Aye 0 No
Environment / Climate 50% aligned 4 shared votes
2 Aye 2 No
6 Aye 4 No
Digital / Online Safety 40% aligned 10 shared votes
6 Aye 4 No
Most different by topic
10 Aye 3 No
Transport 0% aligned 13 shared votes
3 Aye 10 No
3 Aye 1 No
Trade 0% aligned 4 shared votes
1 Aye 3 No
3 Aye 0 No
NHS / Health 0% aligned 3 shared votes
0 Aye 3 No
17 Aye 17 No
Education 3% aligned 34 shared votes
18 Aye 16 No
30 Aye 37 No
Tax 4% aligned 67 shared votes
40 Aye 27 No

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

Voting record

58.7%
14% below average
Rank 584 of 649
Participation
69.2%
4% below average
Rank 450 of 649
340
579 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,637
2,365 eligible divisions
189
55.6% of votes cast
Aye votes
916
56.0% of votes cast
151
44.4% of votes cast
No votes
721
44.0% of votes cast
0
0.0% of votes cast
Against party
5
0.3% of votes cast
2 years, 2 months
Since 4 Jul 2024
Commons service
11 years, 3 months
Since 7 May 2015

Debates

111
+32.2 vs Commons average
Rank 122 of 649
Appearances
41
-37.8 vs Commons average
Rank 484 of 649
147
+9.5 vs Commons average
Rank 191 of 649
Contributions
29
-108.5 vs Commons average
Rank 576 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£164,314
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,122,879
all imported IPSA years
£164,314
27% below average
Latest expenses
£243,077
7% above average
41
5 registered categories
Registered interests
1
1 registered category
0
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

Digital / Online Safety
10 of 11 votes
#1
Defence
63 of 71 votes
Education
42 of 50 votes
#2
Work / Employment
64 of 77 votes
Housing
26 of 31 votes
#3
Environment / Climate
39 of 48 votes
NHS / Health
9 of 11 votes
#4
Brexit / EU
171 of 211 votes
Democracy / Parliament
11 of 14 votes
#5
Trade
72 of 91 votes

Recent voting overlap

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