How is the leasehold voting score calculated?

We take a curated list of House of Commons divisions on leasehold and service-charge reform. The score is the number of those divisions where the MP voted with the pro-leaseholder lobby, divided by the number of tracked divisions they actually voted in. Absences are never counted against an MP.

Is the score a statement of fact?

The votes are facts, taken directly from the UK Parliament's public records. Which lobby counts as pro-leaseholder, and the resulting score, are ServiceCharges.AI's editorial interpretation, not a statement of fact about the MP.

Where does the data come from?

Voting and membership data comes from the UK Parliament APIs under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Postcode-to-constituency lookups use Office for National Statistics data under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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What you'll see

A transparent score. A simple pro-leaseholder grade based only on the divisions your MP actually voted in — with every vote shown.
The votes behind it. Each tracked division in plain English, with how your MP voted, straight from Parliament's public record.
Recent speeches. What your MP has said in the Commons about leasehold, service charges and ground rents.
Relevant interests. Any property or landlord entries in their register of financial interests, for context.
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How the score works

Honest and defensible by design.

We keep a curated, reviewed list of House of Commons divisions (recorded votes) on leasehold and service-charge reform. For each MP:

score % = votes cast in the pro-leaseholder direction ÷ tracked divisions the MP actually voted in

The votes are facts from the UK Parliament. Which lobby counts as "pro-leaseholder", and the score itself, are ServiceCharges.AI's editorial interpretation — not a statement of fact about any MP. We never invent a vote, and we never count an absence against an MP. MPs elected in 2024, or who voted in only a handful of tracked divisions, are shown as "limited record" or "no tracked record yet" rather than being graded.

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Two lanes: leasehold grade vs related housing votes

Kept separate on purpose.

Each MP page has two distinct signals:

The leasehold A–F grade — built only from Commons divisions specifically on leasehold reform (the Leasehold & Freehold Reform Act, ground rents, building-safety cost protection for leaseholders).
A separate "Related housing votes" lane — nearby housing votes such as the Renters' Rights Bill (private renting) and Fire Safety Bill cladding-cost votes. These are relevant context but a different question, so they get their own simple tally and are never counted into the leasehold grade. A Renters' Rights vote is not a leasehold vote, and we never let one be mistaken for the other.

Why separate? Because blending them would muddy the one thing the grade is meant to measure — how an MP has voted on leasehold reform. Many MPs elected in 2024 have no leasehold-reform votes yet; for them the related-housing lane is often the most useful early signal, shown clearly as its own thing.

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