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Shabana Mahmood vs John Lamont

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

Photograph of Shabana Mahmood
Shabana Mahmood
Lab Birmingham Ladywood
vs
Photograph of John Lamont
John Lamont
Con Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

Voting alignment

Shabana Mahmood and John Lamont voted the same way 4% of the time, based on 1,001 shared comparable votes.

42 same votes 959 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
13 Aye 3 No
Education 13% aligned 16 shared votes
5 Aye 11 No
15 Aye 8 No
Benefits 9% aligned 23 shared votes
6 Aye 17 No
16 Aye 6 No
Energy 5% aligned 22 shared votes
7 Aye 15 No
11 Aye 11 No
Environment / Climate 5% aligned 22 shared votes
12 Aye 10 No
16 Aye 7 No
NHS / Health 4% aligned 23 shared votes
8 Aye 15 No
Most different by topic
26 Aye 28 No
Trade 0% aligned 54 shared votes
28 Aye 26 No
28 Aye 14 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 42 shared votes
14 Aye 28 No
23 Aye 14 No
Transport 0% aligned 37 shared votes
14 Aye 23 No
21 Aye 15 No
Defence 0% aligned 36 shared votes
15 Aye 21 No
11 Aye 11 No
Democracy / Parliament 0% aligned 22 shared votes
11 Aye 11 No

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

Voting record

53.6 %
19 % below average
Rank 612 of 649
Participation
85.0 %
12 % above average
Rank 97 of 649
1,266
2,361 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,790
2,106 eligible divisions
729
57.6 % of votes cast
Aye votes
864
48.3 % of votes cast
537
42.4 % of votes cast
No votes
926
51.7 % of votes cast
12
0.9 % of votes cast
Against party
9
0.5 % of votes cast
16 years, 3 months
Since 6 May 2010
Commons service
9 years, 2 months
Since 8 Jun 2017

Debates

73
-4.9 vs Commons average
Rank 282 of 650
Appearances
148
+70.1 vs Commons average
Rank 57 of 650
838
+699.7 vs Commons average
Rank 7 of 650
Contributions
236
+97.7 vs Commons average
Rank 92 of 650

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

Financials and interests

£2,874,401
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,045,465
all imported IPSA years
£287,702
27 % above average
Latest expenses
£334,363
48 % above average
4
1 registered category
Registered interests
8
2 registered categories
5
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
3
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
182 of 211 votes
#1
Trade
83 of 87 votes
Foreign Affairs
51 of 69 votes
#2
Brexit / EU
179 of 188 votes
Democracy / Parliament
28 of 43 votes
#3
Digital / Online Safety
46 of 49 votes
Trade
59 of 91 votes
#4
Migration
150 of 163 votes
Migration
107 of 171 votes
#5
Crime / Justice
177 of 194 votes

Recent voting overlap

Where they voted differently
No
Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading 13 Jul 2026
Migration
Aye
Aye
National Security (State Threats) Bill: motion to agree to Lords Amendment 1 6 Jul 2026
Defence
No
Aye
Customs (Tariff and Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2026 24 Jun 2026
Trade
No
No
National Security (State Threats) Bill Committee: New Clause 3 17 Jun 2026
Defence
Aye
No
National Security (State Threats) Bill Committee: Amendment 13 17 Jun 2026
Defence
Aye
No
National Security (State Threats) Bill Committee: Amendment 8 17 Jun 2026
Defence
Aye
No
National Security (State Threats) Bill Committee: Amendment 3 17 Jun 2026
Defence
Aye
Aye
National Security (State Threats) Bill: Allocation of Time motion 17 Jun 2026
Defence
No
Aye
Draft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2026 3 Jun 2026
No
No
Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading 21 May 2026
Aye
Where they voted the same
No
King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (l) 20 May 2026
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
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Third Reading 20 Jun 2025
No
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 2 13 Jun 2025
Aye
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 1 13 Jun 2025
Aye
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment (b) to New Clause 14 13 Jun 2025
Aye
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Report Stage: Amendment (a) to New Clause 10 16 May 2025
Aye
No
Closure motion 16 May 2025
No
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading 29 Nov 2024
No
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