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Zarah Sultana vs Michael Shanks

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


Voting alignment

Zarah Sultana and Michael Shanks voted the same way 82% of the time, based on 413 shared comparable votes.

339 same votes 74 different votes 413 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
Environment / Climate 100% aligned 5 shared votes
3 Aye 2 No
2 Aye 1 No
NHS / Health 100% aligned 3 shared votes
2 Aye 1 No
39 Aye 25 No
Tax 97% aligned 64 shared votes
39 Aye 25 No
5 Aye 26 No
Migration 97% aligned 31 shared votes
6 Aye 25 No
9 Aye 9 No
Energy 94% aligned 18 shared votes
10 Aye 8 No
Most different by topic
15 Aye 9 No
Benefits 50% aligned 24 shared votes
13 Aye 11 No
17 Aye 15 No
Crime / Justice 53% aligned 32 shared votes
26 Aye 6 No
10 Aye 2 No
Trade 75% aligned 12 shared votes
7 Aye 5 No
18 Aye 19 No
Work / Employment 81% aligned 37 shared votes
23 Aye 14 No
17 Aye 10 No
Education 81% aligned 27 shared votes
18 Aye 9 No

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

Voting record

74.7%
2% above average
Rank 319 of 649
Participation
64.4%
8% below average
Rank 525 of 649
1,238
1,658 eligible divisions
Total votes
501
778 eligible divisions
639
51.6% of votes cast
Aye votes
236
47.1% of votes cast
599
48.4% of votes cast
No votes
265
52.9% of votes cast
4
0.3% of votes cast
Against party
5
1.0% of votes cast
6 years, 9 months
Since 12 Dec 2019
Commons service
2 years, 11 months
Since 5 Oct 2023

Debates

18
-64.1 vs Commons average
Rank 600 of 649
Appearances
100
+17.9 vs Commons average
Rank 168 of 649
20
-122.8 vs Commons average
Rank 603 of 649
Contributions
408
+265.2 vs Commons average
Rank 35 of 649

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

Financials and interests

£1,325,082
all imported IPSA years
Lifetime expenses
£340,820
all imported IPSA years
£293,732
30% above average
Latest expenses
£272,859
21% above average
13
6 registered categories
Registered interests
4
1 registered category
3
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

Work / Employment
62 of 67 votes
#1
Trade
13 of 14 votes
Migration
142 of 154 votes
#2
Benefits
27 of 31 votes
Housing
46 of 54 votes
#3
Work / Employment
38 of 45 votes
Trade
44 of 53 votes
#4
Defence
28 of 34 votes
NHS / Health
39 of 47 votes
#5
Energy
20 of 26 votes

Recent voting overlap

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