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Sir Mel Stride vs Luke Pollard

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


Voting alignment

Sir Mel Stride and Luke Pollard voted the same way 5% of the time, based on 1,163 shared comparable votes.

61 same votes 1,102 different votes 1,163 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
14 Aye 15 No
NHS / Health 10% aligned 29 shared votes
18 Aye 11 No
8 Aye 21 No
Education 7% aligned 29 shared votes
23 Aye 6 No
12 Aye 7 No
Democracy / Parliament 5% aligned 19 shared votes
6 Aye 13 No
64 Aye 94 No
Brexit / EU 5% aligned 158 shared votes
94 Aye 64 No
17 Aye 11 No
Environment / Climate 4% aligned 28 shared votes
12 Aye 16 No
Most different by topic
32 Aye 24 No
Trade 0% aligned 56 shared votes
24 Aye 32 No
20 Aye 30 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 50 shared votes
30 Aye 20 No
23 Aye 24 No
Transport 0% aligned 47 shared votes
24 Aye 23 No
20 Aye 25 No
Defence 0% aligned 45 shared votes
25 Aye 20 No
25 Aye 20 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 45 shared votes
20 Aye 25 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
69.3%
3% below average
Rank 443 of 649
1,850
2,376 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,469
2,121 eligible divisions
896
48.4% of votes cast
Aye votes
810
55.1% of votes cast
954
51.6% of votes cast
No votes
659
44.9% of votes cast
9
0.5% of votes cast
Against party
1
0.1% of votes cast
16 years, 4 months
Since 6 May 2010
Commons service
9 years, 3 months
Since 8 Jun 2017

Debates

29
-53.3 vs Commons average
Rank 557 of 649
Appearances
71
-11.3 vs Commons average
Rank 306 of 649
47
-96.5 vs Commons average
Rank 515 of 649
Contributions
673
+529.5 vs Commons average
Rank 8 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
£1,926,010
all imported IPSA years
£236,671
5% above average
Latest expenses
£309,067
37% above average
27
6 registered categories
Registered interests
2
1 registered category
9
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
204 of 211 votes
#1
Foreign Affairs
61 of 69 votes
Migration
157 of 171 votes
#2
Migration
144 of 163 votes
Environment / Climate
40 of 48 votes
#3
Brexit / EU
164 of 188 votes
Foreign Affairs
57 of 69 votes
#4
Defence
58 of 71 votes
Trade
75 of 91 votes
#5
Trade
71 of 87 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