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Sir Roger Gale vs Heidi Alexander

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

Photograph of Sir Roger Gale
Sir Roger Gale
Con Herne Bay and Sandwich
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Photograph of Heidi Alexander
Heidi Alexander
Lab Swindon South

Voting alignment

Sir Roger Gale and Heidi Alexander voted the same way 2% of the time, based on 393 shared comparable votes.

6 same votes 387 different votes 393 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
3 Aye 2 No
Digital / Online Safety 20% aligned 5 shared votes
3 Aye 2 No
4 Aye 3 No
Democracy / Parliament 14% aligned 7 shared votes
2 Aye 5 No
4 Aye 9 No
Energy 8% aligned 13 shared votes
10 Aye 3 No
19 Aye 7 No
Crime / Justice 4% aligned 26 shared votes
8 Aye 18 No
15 Aye 18 No
Education 3% aligned 33 shared votes
19 Aye 14 No
Most different by topic
29 Aye 44 No
Tax 0% aligned 73 shared votes
44 Aye 29 No
6 Aye 34 No
Brexit / EU 0% aligned 40 shared votes
34 Aye 6 No
16 Aye 19 No
Housing 0% aligned 35 shared votes
19 Aye 16 No
13 Aye 14 No
Transport 0% aligned 27 shared votes
14 Aye 13 No
10 Aye 4 No
Defence 0% aligned 14 shared votes
4 Aye 10 No

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

Voting record

57.0 %
16 % below average
Rank 596 of 647
Participation
62.7 %
10 % below average
Rank 550 of 647
1,330
2,333 eligible divisions
Total votes
343
547 eligible divisions
613
46.1 % of votes cast
Aye votes
161
46.9 % of votes cast
717
53.9 % of votes cast
No votes
182
53.1 % of votes cast
30
2.3 % of votes cast
Against party
0
0.0 % of votes cast
43 years, 0 months
Since 9 Jun 1983
Commons service
1 years, 11 months
Since 4 Jul 2024

Debates

108
+41.8 vs Commons average
Rank 88 of 650
Appearances
56
-10.2 vs Commons average
Rank 321 of 650
68
-49.8 vs Commons average
Rank 385 of 650
Contributions
443
+325.2 vs Commons average
Rank 19 of 650

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

Financials and interests

£2,582,465
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£1,369,392
all imported IPSA years
£243,306
8 % above average
Latest expenses
£178,830
21 % below average
5
4 registered categories
Registered interests
1
1 registered category
1
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
5
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

Democracy / Parliament
35 of 43 votes
#1
Migration
11 of 11 votes
Defence
51 of 64 votes
#2
Transport
24 of 25 votes
Transport
71 of 91 votes
#3
Housing
26 of 31 votes
Housing
48 of 66 votes
#4
Environment / Climate
5 of 6 votes
Trade
63 of 88 votes
#5
Energy
14 of 17 votes

Recent voting overlap

Where they voted differently
Aye
National Security (State Threats) Bill Committee: New Clause 3 17 Jun 2026
Defence
No
Aye
National Security (State Threats) Bill Committee: Amendment 13 17 Jun 2026
Defence
No
Aye
National Security (State Threats) Bill Committee: Amendment 8 17 Jun 2026
Defence
No
Aye
National Security (State Threats) Bill Committee: Amendment 3 17 Jun 2026
Defence
No
Aye
Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 3 16 Jun 2026
No
Aye
Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill Remaining Stages: New Clause 14 16 Jun 2026
No
No
Railways Bill: Third Reading 10 Jun 2026
Transport
Aye
Aye
Railways Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 148 10 Jun 2026
Transport
No
Aye
Railways Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 143 10 Jun 2026
Transport
No
Aye
Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 9 Jun 2026
No
Where they voted the same
No
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill Committee: New Clause 1 12 Nov 2024
Democracy / Parliament
No
Aye
Draft Sovereign Grant 2011 (Change of Percentage) Order 2017 15 Mar 2017
Aye
Aye
Unaccompanied Children in Greece and Italy 1 Mar 2017
Education
Aye
Aye
Renewal of Trident nuclear weapons system 18 Jul 2016
Energy
Aye
Aye
Investigatory Powers Bill Third Reading 7 Jun 2016
Crime / Justice Digital / Online Safety
Aye
Aye
HS2: report stage: Third Reading 23 Mar 2016
Aye
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Voting source Commons Votes API