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Steve Darling vs Jim McMahon

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


Voting alignment

Steve Darling and Jim McMahon voted the same way 16% of the time, based on 327 shared comparable votes.

53 same votes 274 different votes 327 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
5 Aye 3 No
Democracy / Parliament 63% aligned 8 shared votes
2 Aye 6 No
10 Aye 1 No
Energy 55% aligned 11 shared votes
7 Aye 4 No
2 Aye 4 No
Migration 33% aligned 6 shared votes
2 Aye 4 No
2 Aye 1 No
Foreign Affairs 33% aligned 3 shared votes
2 Aye 1 No
4 Aye 0 No
NHS / Health 25% aligned 4 shared votes
1 Aye 3 No
Most different by topic
11 Aye 4 No
Transport 0% aligned 15 shared votes
4 Aye 11 No
33 Aye 34 No
Tax 3% aligned 67 shared votes
36 Aye 31 No
5 Aye 14 No
Devolution / Local Government 5% aligned 19 shared votes
15 Aye 4 No
16 Aye 18 No
Education 6% aligned 34 shared votes
20 Aye 14 No
10 Aye 13 No
Benefits 9% aligned 23 shared votes
13 Aye 10 No

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

Voting record

67.5%
5% below average
Rank 472 of 649
Participation
71.7%
1% below average
Rank 385 of 649
398
590 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,704
2,376 eligible divisions
217
54.5% of votes cast
Aye votes
952
55.9% of votes cast
181
45.5% of votes cast
No votes
752
44.1% of votes cast
7
1.8% of votes cast
Against party
11
0.6% of votes cast
2 years, 3 months
Since 4 Jul 2024
Commons service
10 years, 10 months
Since 3 Dec 2015

Debates

142
+58.3 vs Commons average
Rank 82 of 649
Appearances
90
+6.3 vs Commons average
Rank 220 of 649
168
+22.1 vs Commons average
Rank 173 of 649
Contributions
245
+99.1 vs Commons average
Rank 89 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£235,469
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£1,972,637
all imported IPSA years
£235,469
4% above average
Latest expenses
£264,252
17% above average
8
5 registered categories
Registered interests
2
2 registered categories
0
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

Housing
27 of 32 votes
#1
Foreign Affairs
64 of 69 votes
#2
Education
80 of 96 votes
NHS / Health
9 of 11 votes
#3
Housing
55 of 67 votes
Democracy / Parliament
11 of 14 votes
#4
Migration
139 of 171 votes
Benefits
23 of 30 votes
#5
Brexit / EU
170 of 211 votes

Recent voting overlap

Where they voted differently
Where they voted the same
Member source UK Parliament Members API
Voting source Commons Votes API