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Peter Dowd vs Ben Maguire

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


Voting alignment

Peter Dowd and Ben Maguire voted the same way 17% of the time, based on 258 shared comparable votes.

43 same votes 215 different votes 258 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
3 Aye 5 No
Benefits 88% aligned 8 shared votes
4 Aye 4 No
1 Aye 5 No
Democracy / Parliament 67% aligned 6 shared votes
3 Aye 3 No
6 Aye 3 No
Energy 56% aligned 9 shared votes
8 Aye 1 No
7 Aye 4 No
Digital / Online Safety 36% aligned 11 shared votes
6 Aye 5 No
0 Aye 3 No
Migration 33% aligned 3 shared votes
2 Aye 1 No
Most different by topic
17 Aye 10 No
Education 0% aligned 27 shared votes
10 Aye 17 No
2 Aye 11 No
Transport 0% aligned 13 shared votes
11 Aye 2 No
0 Aye 3 No
NHS / Health 0% aligned 3 shared votes
3 Aye 0 No
0 Aye 3 No
Trade 0% aligned 3 shared votes
3 Aye 0 No
32 Aye 32 No
Tax 6% aligned 64 shared votes
36 Aye 28 No

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

Voting record

69.2%
4% below average
Rank 450 of 649
Participation
61.1%
12% below average
Rank 569 of 649
1,637
2,365 eligible divisions
Total votes
354
579 eligible divisions
916
56.0% of votes cast
Aye votes
192
54.2% of votes cast
721
44.0% of votes cast
No votes
162
45.8% of votes cast
5
0.3% of votes cast
Against party
1
0.3% of votes cast
11 years, 3 months
Since 7 May 2015
Commons service
2 years, 2 months
Since 4 Jul 2024

Debates

41
-37.8 vs Commons average
Rank 484 of 649
Appearances
97
+18.2 vs Commons average
Rank 163 of 649
29
-108.5 vs Commons average
Rank 576 of 649
Contributions
110
-27.5 vs Commons average
Rank 286 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£2,122,879
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£178,125
all imported IPSA years
£243,077
7% above average
Latest expenses
£178,125
21% below average
1
1 registered category
Registered interests
6
5 registered categories
2
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

Defence
63 of 71 votes
#1
Digital / Online Safety
11 of 11 votes
Work / Employment
64 of 77 votes
#2
Housing
27 of 31 votes
Environment / Climate
39 of 48 votes
#3
NHS / Health
9 of 11 votes
Brexit / EU
171 of 211 votes
#4
Defence
27 of 34 votes
Trade
72 of 91 votes
#5
Democracy / Parliament
11 of 14 votes

Recent voting overlap

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