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Ms Polly Billington vs Gareth Davies

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

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Ms Polly Billington
Lab East Thanet
vs
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Gareth Davies
Con Grantham and Bourne

Voting alignment

Ms Polly Billington and Gareth Davies voted the same way 6% of the time, based on 306 shared comparable votes.

19 same votes 287 different votes 306 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
2 Aye 3 No
Migration 20% aligned 5 shared votes
2 Aye 3 No
8 Aye 7 No
Benefits 13% aligned 15 shared votes
5 Aye 10 No
2 Aye 7 No
Democracy / Parliament 11% aligned 9 shared votes
6 Aye 3 No
22 Aye 18 No
Crime / Justice 8% aligned 40 shared votes
17 Aye 23 No
51 Aye 34 No
Tax 0% aligned 85 shared votes
34 Aye 51 No
Most different by topic
51 Aye 34 No
Tax 0% aligned 85 shared votes
34 Aye 51 No
22 Aye 9 No
Education 0% aligned 31 shared votes
9 Aye 22 No
19 Aye 4 No
Housing 0% aligned 23 shared votes
4 Aye 19 No
5 Aye 9 No
Defence 0% aligned 14 shared votes
9 Aye 5 No
8 Aye 5 No
Energy 0% aligned 13 shared votes
5 Aye 8 No

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

Voting record

79.7%
7% above average
Rank 205 of 649
Participation
83.2%
11% above average
Rank 129 of 649
470
590 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,380
1,658 eligible divisions
242
51.5% of votes cast
Aye votes
691
50.1% of votes cast
228
48.5% of votes cast
No votes
689
49.9% of votes cast
14
3.0% of votes cast
Against party
3
0.2% of votes cast
2 years, 2 months
Since 4 Jul 2024
Commons service
6 years, 9 months
Since 12 Dec 2019

Debates

82
-0.3 vs Commons average
Rank 248 of 649
Appearances
48
-34.3 vs Commons average
Rank 460 of 649
118
-25.5 vs Commons average
Rank 272 of 649
Contributions
62
-81.5 vs Commons average
Rank 469 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£162,742
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£1,160,498
all imported IPSA years
£162,742
28% below average
Latest expenses
£271,157
20% above average
2
1 registered category
Registered interests
8
4 registered categories
1
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

Democracy / Parliament
14 of 14 votes
#1
Brexit / EU
63 of 63 votes
NHS / Health
11 of 11 votes
#2
Migration
147 of 154 votes
Devolution / Local Government
23 of 24 votes
#3
Trade
50 of 53 votes
Housing
30 of 32 votes
#4
Environment / Climate
41 of 44 votes
Tax
98 of 112 votes
#5
Crime / Justice
155 of 174 votes

Recent voting overlap

Where they voted differently
No
Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 8 Sept 2026
Aye
No
Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 8 Sept 2026
Aye
No
Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 142 8 Sept 2026
Aye
No
Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 145 7 Sept 2026
Aye
Aye
Representation of the People Bill: Third Reading 2 Sept 2026
Democracy / Parliament
No
No
Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 67 2 Sept 2026
Democracy / Parliament
Aye
No
Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 65 2 Sept 2026
Democracy / Parliament
Aye
Aye
Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 15 Jul 2026
Trade Work / Employment
No
Aye
Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots 15 Jul 2026
Trade Work / Employment
No
No
Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19 14 Jul 2026
Aye
Where they voted the same
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading 11 Sept 2026
No
No
Closure motion 11 Sept 2026
No
No
Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 88 2 Sept 2026
Democracy / Parliament
No
No
King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (l) 20 May 2026
No
No
Sentencing Bill Committee: New Clause 30 21 Oct 2025
Crime / Justice
No
No
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: New Clause 8 9 Jul 2025
Benefits
No
No
Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 39 9 Jul 2025
Benefits
No
Aye
Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025 2 Jul 2025
Crime / Justice
Aye
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Third Reading 20 Jun 2025
No
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 77 20 Jun 2025
No
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