Mr Bayo Alaba, MP for Southend East and Rochford
Bayo Alaba has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee | 2024 to now | Now |
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
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.
Bayo Alaba has 4 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Shareholdings | Shares in Onit Events Ltd | 4 Aug 2024 |
| Shareholdings | Shares in Alaba Properties | 4 Aug 2024 |
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Property in London | 4 Aug 2024 |
| Shareholdings | Shares in StreetFestLive Ltd | 4 Aug 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.
Bayo Alaba asked 3 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
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.
125 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Bayo Alaba represents Southend East and Rochford. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Bayo Alaba won with 39% of the votes, and Gavin Haran (Conservative) came second with 29%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayo Alaba | Labour | 15,395 | 38.8% |
| Gavin Haran | Conservative | 11,368 | 28.7% |
| Leslie Lilley | Reform UK | 7,214 | 18.2% |
| Simon Cross | Green Party | 2,716 | 6.8% |
| James Allen | Liberal Democrat | 2,269 | 5.7% |
| Lee Clark | Confelicity | 488 | 1.2% |
| Bianca Isherwood | Heritage Party | 206 | 0.5% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Bayo Alaba took part in 190 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Bayo Alaba voted the same way as their party in 188 of the 188 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | Against | Free vote |
| 13 Jul | Immigration and asylum: the first main vote | For | Same as party |
| 13 Jul | Immigration and asylum: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 6 Jul | Threats to national security from other states: changes from the House of Lords | For | Same as party |
| 1 Jul | Taxes on energy and vehicles: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 73% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 76% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 66% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 66% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 68% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 75% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 75% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 71% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 86% |
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