Simon Lightwood, the Labour (Co-op) MP for Wakefield and Rothwell, was first elected in June 2022 and has been in the current parliament since its start on 4 July 2024. He has cast 258 votes out of 515 eligible divisions, achieving a participation rate of 50.10%, and ranks 321st overall among all MPs and 226th within the Labour (Co-op) party for voting. In debates, he has made 491 contributions across 121 debates and ranks 276th overall, performing particularly strongly among his cohort of 2022 MPs with a second-place ranking. His debate contributions focus primarily on transport, local government, and procedural matters, while his voting patterns centre on parliamentary procedure, employment and workers rights, and justice and law matters.

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