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Sir Mel Stride vs Helen Hayes

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


Voting alignment

Sir Mel Stride and Helen Hayes voted the same way 4% of the time, based on 1,504 shared comparable votes.

67 same votes 1,437 different votes 1,504 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
12 Aye 20 No
NHS / Health 9% aligned 32 shared votes
23 Aye 9 No
72 Aye 68 No
Crime / Justice 6% aligned 140 shared votes
74 Aye 66 No
5 Aye 14 No
Digital / Online Safety 5% aligned 19 shared votes
15 Aye 4 No
71 Aye 113 No
Brexit / EU 4% aligned 184 shared votes
113 Aye 71 No
17 Aye 10 No
Democracy / Parliament 4% aligned 27 shared votes
9 Aye 18 No
Most different by topic
33 Aye 31 No
Transport 0% aligned 64 shared votes
31 Aye 33 No
36 Aye 25 No
Trade 0% aligned 61 shared votes
25 Aye 36 No
19 Aye 34 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 53 shared votes
34 Aye 19 No
29 Aye 19 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 48 shared votes
19 Aye 29 No
21 Aye 25 No
Defence 0% aligned 46 shared votes
25 Aye 21 No

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

Voting record

77.9%
5% above average
Rank 248 of 649
Participation
79.4%
7% above average
Rank 215 of 649
1,850
2,376 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,886
2,376 eligible divisions
896
48.4% of votes cast
Aye votes
1,039
55.1% of votes cast
954
51.6% of votes cast
No votes
847
44.9% of votes cast
9
0.5% of votes cast
Against party
20
1.1% of votes cast
16 years, 5 months
Since 6 May 2010
Commons service
11 years, 5 months
Since 7 May 2015

Debates

29
-54.7 vs Commons average
Rank 559 of 649
Appearances
105
+21.3 vs Commons average
Rank 153 of 649
47
-98.9 vs Commons average
Rank 516 of 649
Contributions
133
-12.9 vs Commons average
Rank 232 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£2,344,654
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,194,899
all imported IPSA years
£236,671
5% above average
Latest expenses
£295,156
30% above average
27
6 registered categories
Registered interests
2
2 registered categories
9
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

Brexit / EU
204 of 211 votes
#1
Foreign Affairs
65 of 69 votes
Migration
157 of 171 votes
#2
Housing
63 of 67 votes
Environment / Climate
40 of 48 votes
#3
Brexit / EU
190 of 211 votes
Foreign Affairs
57 of 69 votes
#4
Defence
62 of 71 votes
Trade
75 of 91 votes
#5
Democracy / Parliament
41 of 47 votes

Recent voting overlap

Where they voted differently
Aye rebel
Closure motion 11 Sept 2026
No rebel
Where they voted the same
Member source UK Parliament Members API
Voting source Commons Votes API