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Last 12 months

How Alex Mayer votes

Alex Mayer voted the same way as their party in 100% of the votes where parties gave instructions. In 0 of those 258 votes, they went the other way.

What does this mean?

Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high score is normal and says nothing about whether an MP is good or bad. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. Words explained

Recent votes

DateVoteThey votedCompared with party
11 SepEnd of life for terminally ill adults: the first main voteForFree vote
11 SepA vote to end a debateForFree vote
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party

See every vote on Parliament’s site

Declared interests

MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.

Alex Mayer has 3 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UKDuolingo - £5,000.001 Jun 2026
MiscellaneousUnpaid Director, Restitute CIC.17 Jul 2024
Land and property (within or outside the UK)Property in Ipswich, Cambridge and Somerset17 Jul 2024

Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page

Questions

MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.

Alex Mayer asked 286 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department for Transport85
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs69
Department of Health and Social Care17
Department for Business and Trade17
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government16

Latest questions

15 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Transport
Not answered yet
14 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Not answered yet
14 Sep 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Not answered yet
10 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Answered 21 Sep 2026
10 Sep 2026 · to the Home Office
Answered 21 Sep 2026

Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026

Expenses

MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.

PAID IN 2025-26
£24,981
Office costs · claims for running an office£20,865
Staffing · claims relating to staff£239
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£3,877

68 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.

Costs depend on many things, such as where an MP’s area is, what premises and staff they need, and whether they joined or left part-way through the year. This page does not say whether any amount is right or wrong. It covers the claims in IPSA’s individual business costs file, so it is not the full cost of an MP’s office.

Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data

Election result and area

Alex Mayer represents Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Alex Mayer

Labour

MAJORITY
667

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
60%

of people who could vote did

Alex Mayer won with 33% of the votes, and Andrew Selous (Conservative) came second with 31%.

Votes for each party

Labour33% · 14,976
Conservative31% · 14,309
Reform UK18% · 8,071
Liberal Democrat14% · 6,497
Green Party5% · 2,115
English Democrats0% · 77
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Alex MayerLabour14,97632.5%
Andrew SelousConservative14,30931.1%
Harry PalmerReform UK8,07117.5%
Emma Holland-LindsayLiberal Democrat6,49714.1%
Sukhinder HundalGreen Party2,1154.6%
Antonio VitielloEnglish Democrats770.2%

2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.

Your area at a glance

Typical pay for full-time workers who live here
£796 a week
This areaUK: £767 a week

Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

Working-age people claiming unemployment-related benefits
3.3%
This areaUK: 3.9%

Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.

At a general election each area elects one MP, and the candidate with the most votes wins, even without more than half. The area figures describe the people who live here. They do not show whether any MP or vote is the cause.

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Has this changed over time? 90%95%100%Oct 25Sep 26
This MPParty average
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Source: Commons Votes API

This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this