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Valerie Vaz vs Peter Dowd
A side-by-side comparison of voting participation, party rebellion, topic focus, and recent voting overlap.
Voting alignment
Valerie Vaz and Peter Dowd voted the same way 100% of the time, based on 1,456 shared comparable votes.
1,455 same votes
1 different votes
1,456 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
76.8%
4% above average
Participation
69.1%
4% below average
1,819
2,368 eligible divisions
Total votes
1,637
2,368 eligible divisions
1,024
56.3% of votes cast
Aye votes
916
56.0% of votes cast
795
43.7% of votes cast
No votes
721
44.0% of votes cast
11
0.6% of votes cast
Against party
5
0.3% of votes cast
16 years, 4 months
Since 6 May 2010
Commons service
11 years, 4 months
Since 7 May 2015
Debates
29
-49.7 vs Commons average
Appearances
41
-37.7 vs Commons average
15
-122.1 vs Commons average
Contributions
29
-108.1 vs Commons average
Debate figures cover imported Hansard debate appearances from the last 12 months.
Financials and interests
£2,436,824
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£2,122,879
all imported IPSA years
£218,663
3% below average
Latest expenses
£243,077
7% above average
2
2 registered categories
Registered interests
1
1 registered category
2
matched sponsored bills
Sponsored bills
2
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
Where they voted the same
Member source
UK Parliament Members API
Voting source
Commons Votes API