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Mrs Kemi Badenoch vs Catherine West

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

Photograph of Mrs Kemi Badenoch
Mrs Kemi Badenoch
Con North West Essex
vs
Photograph of Catherine West
Catherine West
Lab Hornsey and Friern Barnet

Voting alignment

Mrs Kemi Badenoch and Catherine West voted the same way 4% of the time, based on 1,108 shared comparable votes.

43 same votes 1,065 different votes 1,108 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
8 Aye 27 No
Education 6% aligned 35 shared votes
29 Aye 6 No
82 Aye 38 No
Migration 3% aligned 120 shared votes
34 Aye 86 No
11 Aye 20 No
Energy 3% aligned 31 shared votes
21 Aye 10 No
14 Aye 18 No
NHS / Health 3% aligned 32 shared votes
19 Aye 13 No
57 Aye 93 No
Brexit / EU 3% aligned 150 shared votes
93 Aye 57 No
Most different by topic
30 Aye 30 No
Trade 0% aligned 60 shared votes
30 Aye 30 No
18 Aye 29 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 47 shared votes
29 Aye 18 No
24 Aye 23 No
Transport 0% aligned 47 shared votes
23 Aye 24 No
19 Aye 14 No
Environment / Climate 0% aligned 33 shared votes
14 Aye 19 No
15 Aye 17 No
Defence 0% aligned 32 shared votes
17 Aye 15 No

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

Voting record

66.7%
6% below average
Rank 484 of 649
Participation
73.5%
1% above average
Rank 343 of 649
1,415
2,121 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,747
2,376 eligible divisions
702
49.6% of votes cast
Aye votes
947
54.2% of votes cast
713
50.4% of votes cast
No votes
800
45.8% of votes cast
3
0.2% of votes cast
Against party
8
0.5% of votes cast
9 years, 4 months
Since 8 Jun 2017
Commons service
11 years, 5 months
Since 7 May 2015

Debates

66
-17.6 vs Commons average
Rank 340 of 650
Appearances
49
-34.6 vs Commons average
Rank 460 of 650
277
+131.3 vs Commons average
Rank 69 of 650
Contributions
60
-85.7 vs Commons average
Rank 475 of 650

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

Financials and interests

£1,740,878
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,012,777
all imported IPSA years
£278,687
23% above average
Latest expenses
£264,778
17% above average
19
5 registered categories
Registered interests
3
3 registered categories
4
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

Brexit / EU
167 of 188 votes
#1
Education
86 of 96 votes
Trade
73 of 87 votes
#2
Migration
153 of 171 votes
Migration
134 of 163 votes
#3
Brexit / EU
186 of 211 votes
Foreign Affairs
54 of 69 votes
#4
Environment / Climate
41 of 48 votes
Energy
45 of 59 votes
#5
Foreign Affairs
57 of 69 votes

Recent voting overlap

Where they voted differently
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading 11 Sept 2026
Aye
No
Draft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 9 Sept 2026
Aye
Aye
Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 8 Sept 2026
No
Aye
Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 8 Sept 2026
No
Aye
Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 142 8 Sept 2026
No
No
Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 15 Jul 2026
Trade Work / Employment
Aye
No
Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots 15 Jul 2026
Trade Work / Employment
Aye
Aye
Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading 13 Jul 2026
Migration
No
No
Employment Tribunal (Extension of Time Limits) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2026 1 Jul 2026
Aye
No
Employment Tribunals Extension of Jurisdiction (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 2026 1 Jul 2026
Aye
Where they voted the same
No
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21 12 May 2025
Migration
No
No
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill Committee: Amendment 23 17 Jan 2024
Migration
No
No
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill Committee: Amendment 19 16 Jan 2024
Migration
No
No
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill Committee: Amendment 10 16 Jan 2024
Migration
No
Aye
Draft Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2023 13 Dec 2023
Aye
Aye
Adjournment (Summer, Conference and Christmas Recess) 12 Jul 2023
Aye
No
Holocaust Memorial Bill: Instruction (Amendment a) 28 Jun 2023
No
Aye
Relationships and Sexuality Education (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 28 Jun 2023
Education
Aye
Aye
Draft Windsor Framework (Democratic Scrutiny) Regulations 2023 22 Mar 2023
Aye
No
Motion to sit in private 16 Jan 2023
Tax
No
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