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Sir Mel Stride vs Stephen Doughty

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


Voting alignment

Sir Mel Stride and Stephen Doughty voted the same way 5% of the time, based on 1,300 shared comparable votes.

70 same votes 1,230 different votes 1,300 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
68 Aye 58 No
Crime / Justice 7% aligned 126 shared votes
65 Aye 61 No
15 Aye 14 No
NHS / Health 7% aligned 29 shared votes
16 Aye 13 No
68 Aye 96 No
Brexit / EU 5% aligned 164 shared votes
96 Aye 68 No
10 Aye 15 No
Digital / Online Safety 4% aligned 25 shared votes
16 Aye 9 No
16 Aye 15 No
Energy 3% aligned 31 shared votes
16 Aye 15 No
Most different by topic
33 Aye 25 No
Trade 0% aligned 58 shared votes
25 Aye 33 No
29 Aye 27 No
Transport 0% aligned 56 shared votes
27 Aye 29 No
23 Aye 19 No
Work / Employment 0% aligned 42 shared votes
19 Aye 23 No
19 Aye 21 No
Defence 0% aligned 40 shared votes
21 Aye 19 No
11 Aye 17 No
Benefits 0% aligned 28 shared votes
17 Aye 11 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
66.5%
6% below average
Rank 490 of 649
1,850
2,376 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,581
2,376 eligible divisions
896
48.4% of votes cast
Aye votes
906
57.3% of votes cast
954
51.6% of votes cast
No votes
675
42.7% of votes cast
9
0.5% of votes cast
Against party
19
1.2% of votes cast
16 years, 4 months
Since 6 May 2010
Commons service
13 years, 10 months
Since 15 Nov 2012

Debates

29
-53.3 vs Commons average
Rank 557 of 649
Appearances
79
-3.3 vs Commons average
Rank 266 of 649
47
-96.5 vs Commons average
Rank 515 of 649
Contributions
349
+205.5 vs Commons average
Rank 46 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
£2,632,101
all imported IPSA years
£236,671
5% above average
Latest expenses
£294,894
30% above average
27
6 registered categories
Registered interests
0
0 registered categories
9
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
0
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
Brexit / EU
177 of 211 votes
Migration
157 of 171 votes
#2
Foreign Affairs
57 of 69 votes
Environment / Climate
40 of 48 votes
#3
Defence
55 of 71 votes
Foreign Affairs
57 of 69 votes
#4
Democracy / Parliament
36 of 47 votes
Trade
75 of 91 votes
#5
Environment / Climate
36 of 48 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