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Mrs Kemi Badenoch vs Yvette Cooper

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 Yvette Cooper
Yvette Cooper
Lab Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley

Voting alignment

Mrs Kemi Badenoch and Yvette Cooper voted the same way 4% of the time, based on 1,033 shared comparable votes.

43 same votes 990 different votes 1,033 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
7 Aye 15 No
Education 9% aligned 22 shared votes
17 Aye 5 No
11 Aye 22 No
Energy 6% aligned 33 shared votes
24 Aye 9 No
10 Aye 19 No
NHS / Health 3% aligned 29 shared votes
20 Aye 9 No
81 Aye 39 No
Migration 3% aligned 120 shared votes
35 Aye 85 No
58 Aye 88 No
Brexit / EU 3% aligned 146 shared votes
88 Aye 58 No
Most different by topic
30 Aye 30 No
Trade 0% aligned 60 shared votes
30 Aye 30 No
20 Aye 31 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 51 shared votes
31 Aye 20 No
20 Aye 23 No
Transport 0% aligned 43 shared votes
23 Aye 20 No
17 Aye 14 No
Environment / Climate 0% aligned 31 shared votes
14 Aye 17 No
13 Aye 17 No
Defence 0% aligned 30 shared votes
17 Aye 13 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
62.8%
10% below average
Rank 544 of 649
1,415
2,121 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,493
2,376 eligible divisions
702
49.6% of votes cast
Aye votes
855
57.3% of votes cast
713
50.4% of votes cast
No votes
638
42.7% of votes cast
3
0.2% of votes cast
Against party
0
0.0% of votes cast
9 years, 4 months
Since 8 Jun 2017
Commons service
29 years, 5 months
Since 1 May 1997

Debates

66
-17.6 vs Commons average
Rank 340 of 650
Appearances
77
-6.6 vs Commons average
Rank 286 of 650
277
+131.3 vs Commons average
Rank 69 of 650
Contributions
1,127
+981.3 vs Commons average
Rank 3 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
£2,905,570
all imported IPSA years
£278,687
23% above average
Latest expenses
£284,172
26% above average
19
5 registered categories
Registered interests
2
2 registered categories
4
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
8
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
Migration
149 of 171 votes
Trade
73 of 87 votes
#2
Foreign Affairs
58 of 69 votes
Migration
134 of 163 votes
#3
Brexit / EU
176 of 211 votes
Foreign Affairs
54 of 69 votes
#4
Environment / Climate
37 of 48 votes
Energy
45 of 59 votes
#5
Trade
68 of 91 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
No
Customs (Tariff and Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2026 24 Jun 2026
Trade
Aye
Aye
Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: New Clause 11 22 Jun 2026
Defence
No
Aye
Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: New Clause 4 22 Jun 2026
Defence
No
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
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
Aye
Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill: Third Reading 10 Jan 2022
Energy
Aye
Aye
draft Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No.2) Regulations 2021 14 Dec 2021
Aye
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