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Sarah Olney vs Alan Mak

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


Voting alignment

Sarah Olney and Alan Mak voted the same way 23% of the time, based on 1,001 shared comparable votes.

228 same votes 773 different votes 1,001 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
24 Aye 21 No
Education 62% aligned 45 shared votes
13 Aye 32 No
8 Aye 16 No
Devolution / Local Government 58% aligned 24 shared votes
10 Aye 14 No
4 Aye 31 No
Work / Employment 54% aligned 35 shared votes
12 Aye 23 No
72 Aye 53 No
Tax 49% aligned 125 shared votes
40 Aye 85 No
15 Aye 15 No
Housing 40% aligned 30 shared votes
11 Aye 19 No
Most different by topic
17 Aye 7 No
Environment / Climate 0% aligned 24 shared votes
7 Aye 17 No
3 Aye 0 No
Cost of Living 0% aligned 3 shared votes
0 Aye 3 No
41 Aye 32 No
Brexit / EU 1% aligned 73 shared votes
31 Aye 42 No
22 Aye 17 No
Foreign Affairs 3% aligned 39 shared votes
16 Aye 23 No
19 Aye 90 No
Migration 3% aligned 109 shared votes
87 Aye 22 No

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

Voting record

70.5 %
2 % below average
Rank 418 of 649
Participation
85.4 %
13 % above average
Rank 87 of 649
1,158
1,643 eligible divisions
Total votes
2,017
2,361 eligible divisions
625
54.0 % of votes cast
Aye votes
955
47.3 % of votes cast
533
46.0 % of votes cast
No votes
1,062
52.7 % of votes cast
12
1.0 % of votes cast
Against party
4
0.2 % of votes cast
6 years, 7 months
Since 12 Dec 2019
Commons service
11 years, 3 months
Since 7 May 2015

Debates

144
+66.0 vs Commons average
Rank 64 of 649
Appearances
18
-60.0 vs Commons average
Rank 595 of 649
191
+52.5 vs Commons average
Rank 132 of 649
Contributions
21
-117.5 vs Commons average
Rank 595 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£1,445,336
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£1,951,902
all imported IPSA years
£300,579
33 % above average
Latest expenses
£292,278
29 % above average
0
0 registered categories
Registered interests
28
7 registered categories
8
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

Foreign Affairs
47 of 50 votes
#1
Brexit / EU
205 of 211 votes
Brexit / EU
55 of 63 votes
#2
Environment / Climate
46 of 48 votes
Trade
46 of 53 votes
#3
Trade
84 of 91 votes
Defence
57 of 70 votes
#4
Migration
157 of 171 votes
NHS / Health
37 of 47 votes
#5
Work / Employment
70 of 77 votes

Recent voting overlap

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