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Valerie Vaz vs Gareth Bacon

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


Voting alignment

Valerie Vaz and Gareth Bacon voted the same way 3% of the time, based on 1,089 shared comparable votes.

34 same votes 1,055 different votes 1,089 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
19 Aye 15 No
NHS / Health 6% aligned 34 shared votes
17 Aye 17 No
22 Aye 7 No
Energy 3% aligned 29 shared votes
8 Aye 21 No
17 Aye 19 No
Environment / Climate 3% aligned 36 shared votes
20 Aye 16 No
34 Aye 96 No
Migration 2% aligned 130 shared votes
93 Aye 37 No
38 Aye 15 No
Education 2% aligned 53 shared votes
16 Aye 37 No
Most different by topic
24 Aye 28 No
Brexit / EU 0% aligned 52 shared votes
28 Aye 24 No
23 Aye 23 No
Defence 0% aligned 46 shared votes
23 Aye 23 No
29 Aye 16 No
Foreign Affairs 0% aligned 45 shared votes
16 Aye 29 No
21 Aye 22 No
Trade 0% aligned 43 shared votes
22 Aye 21 No
31 Aye 11 No
Housing 0% aligned 42 shared votes
11 Aye 31 No

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

Voting record

77.1 %
4 % above average
Rank 275 of 648
Participation
87.9 %
15 % above average
Rank 59 of 648
1,782
2,312 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,401
1,594 eligible divisions
1,014
56.9 % of votes cast
Aye votes
683
48.8 % of votes cast
768
43.1 % of votes cast
No votes
718
51.2 % of votes cast
11
0.6 % of votes cast
Against party
5
0.4 % of votes cast
16 years, 1 months
Since 6 May 2010
Commons service
6 years, 5 months
Since 12 Dec 2019

Debates

30
-30.4 vs Commons average
Rank 499 of 648
Appearances
42
-18.4 vs Commons average
Rank 393 of 648
15
-93.9 vs Commons average
Rank 609 of 648
Contributions
53
-55.9 vs Commons average
Rank 436 of 648

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

Financials and interests

£2,436,824
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£1,123,891
all imported IPSA years
£218,663
3 % below average
Latest expenses
£268,955
19 % above average
3
3 registered categories
Registered interests
2
2 registered categories
0
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

Foreign Affairs
67 of 69 votes
#1
Brexit / EU
63 of 63 votes
Education
90 of 95 votes
#2
Trade
49 of 50 votes
Defence
53 of 59 votes
#3
Migration
145 of 152 votes
Migration
147 of 169 votes
#4
Work / Employment
62 of 65 votes
Brexit / EU
181 of 211 votes
#5
Environment / Climate
39 of 41 votes

Recent voting overlap

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