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Sir Stephen Timms vs Sir Julian Smith
A side-by-side comparison of voting participation, party rebellion, topic focus, and recent voting overlap.
Voting alignment
Sir Stephen Timms and Sir Julian Smith voted the same way 6% of the time, based on 1,477 shared comparable votes.
82 same votes
1,395 different votes
1,477 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
Most different by topic
Topic alignment uses local topic tags, so a division can count towards more than one topic.
Voting record
78.5%
6% above average
Participation
77.3%
5% above average
1,866
2,376 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,837
2,376 eligible divisions
1,024
54.9% of votes cast
Aye votes
884
48.1% of votes cast
842
45.1% of votes cast
No votes
953
51.9% of votes cast
14
0.8% of votes cast
Against party
5
0.3% of votes cast
32 years, 3 months
Since 9 Jun 1994
Commons service
16 years, 4 months
Since 6 May 2010
Debates
53
-29.3 vs Commons average
Appearances
97
+14.7 vs Commons average
199
+55.5 vs Commons average
Contributions
115
-28.5 vs Commons average
Debate figures cover imported Hansard debate appearances from the last 12 months.
Financials and interests
£2,605,766
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,587,883
all imported IPSA years
£272,963
21% above average
Latest expenses
£259,624
15% above average
3
1 registered category
Registered interests
5
5 registered categories
8
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
1
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
Recent voting overlap
Where they voted differently
Aye
No
Where they voted the same
Member source
UK Parliament Members API
Voting source
Commons Votes API