Parliamentary votes on leasehold reform can feel abstract — until you realise they directly affect your ground rent, your right to extend your lease, and how much you pay in service charges. Knowing how your MP voted is the first step towards holding them accountable.
Why MP Voting Records Matter for Leaseholders
Since 2017, Parliament has debated and voted on at least ten major divisions related to leasehold, building safety, and housing standards. These include:
- The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 — capping ground rent on new leases
- The Building Safety Act 2022 — protecting leaseholders from cladding costs
- The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 — extending lease extension rights and banning new leasehold houses
- Debates on service charge transparency, commonhold, and right to manage
Each MP either voted for, voted against, or was absent from these divisions. That pattern tells you a lot about where they stand.
The Problem with Raw Parliament Data
The official Parliament website publishes every division (vote), but the data is spread across dozens of pages, uses parliamentary language, and does not group votes by topic. Finding out whether your MP supported the ground rent cap, for example, means manually searching through hundreds of division records.
Using Zepely to Look Up Your MP
Zepely simplifies this by tracking ten key leasehold-related division categories and scoring each MP from 0 to 10 based on how consistently they voted in favour of leaseholder protections.
Step 1 — Enter your postcode
Go to the MP lookup page and type your UK postcode. Zepely uses the official postcodes.io API to match your postcode to your parliamentary constituency.
Step 2 — View the score
Your MP's profile page shows a headline score — the number of tracked debates where they voted in favour of leasehold reform. A score of 10/10 means they supported leaseholders in every tracked division.
Step 3 — Read the breakdown
Below the score, a full voting ledger shows each division by name, the date it was held, and whether your MP voted for, against, or was absent. This gives you the detail behind the headline number.
Step 4 — Check speeches and interests
Zepely also tracks how many times your MP mentioned leasehold topics in parliamentary speeches, and whether they have declared property interests that could represent a conflict of interest.
What to Do with This Information
- Write to your MP — if their score is low, a polite letter explaining why leasehold reform matters to you can make a difference. Zepely offers an AI letter-writing tool to help you get started.
- Share the profile — use the share button on your MP's page to send the voting record to neighbours, your residents' association, or social media.
- Compare parties — visit the party analysis page to see how different parties compare on leasehold voting as a whole.
Staying Up to Date
Parliamentary voting data updates regularly. Zepely refreshes MP records every two weeks to capture new divisions and speeches, so your MP's score reflects their most recent activity.