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Sir Mel Stride vs Nick Smith

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


Voting alignment

Sir Mel Stride and Nick Smith voted the same way 6% of the time, based on 1,367 shared comparable votes.

76 same votes 1,291 different votes 1,367 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
15 Aye 15 No
NHS / Health 10% aligned 30 shared votes
18 Aye 12 No
71 Aye 69 No
Crime / Justice 6% aligned 140 shared votes
76 Aye 64 No
53 Aye 82 No
Brexit / EU 6% aligned 135 shared votes
88 Aye 47 No
15 Aye 11 No
Democracy / Parliament 4% aligned 26 shared votes
10 Aye 16 No
20 Aye 33 No
Education 4% aligned 53 shared votes
35 Aye 18 No
Most different by topic
29 Aye 26 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 55 shared votes
26 Aye 29 No
31 Aye 21 No
Transport 0% aligned 52 shared votes
21 Aye 31 No
18 Aye 30 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 48 shared votes
30 Aye 18 No
12 Aye 32 No
Benefits 0% aligned 44 shared votes
32 Aye 12 No
21 Aye 21 No
Defence 0% aligned 42 shared votes
21 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
74.9%
2% above average
Rank 313 of 649
1,850
2,376 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,779
2,376 eligible divisions
896
48.4% of votes cast
Aye votes
1,016
57.1% of votes cast
954
51.6% of votes cast
No votes
763
42.9% of votes cast
9
0.5% of votes cast
Against party
5
0.3% of votes cast
16 years, 4 months
Since 6 May 2010
Commons service
16 years, 4 months
Since 6 May 2010

Debates

29
-53.3 vs Commons average
Rank 557 of 649
Appearances
95
+12.7 vs Commons average
Rank 188 of 649
47
-96.5 vs Commons average
Rank 515 of 649
Contributions
125
-18.5 vs Commons average
Rank 251 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
£2,595,067
all imported IPSA years
£236,671
5% above average
Latest expenses
£251,492
11% above average
27
6 registered categories
Registered interests
0
0 registered categories
9
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
2
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
Education
89 of 96 votes
Migration
157 of 171 votes
#2
Work / Employment
71 of 77 votes
Environment / Climate
40 of 48 votes
#3
Housing
59 of 67 votes
Foreign Affairs
57 of 69 votes
#4
Foreign Affairs
58 of 69 votes
Trade
75 of 91 votes
#5
Brexit / EU
177 of 211 votes

Recent voting overlap

Where they voted differently
Where they voted the same
Aye
Closure motion 11 Sept 2026
Aye
Member source UK Parliament Members API
Voting source Commons Votes API