I've asked a colleague who teaches stats in the University to run constituency deprivation scores and assisted suicide votes through some independent statistical analysis. The results are quite interesting. Here, for example, are how Labour MPs split on assisted suicide:
There's a clear link between the deprivation ranking of an MP's constituency and their vote. On the index of multiple deprivation, where 1 = most deprived, the higher the level of deprivation in their constituency, the more likely the MP was to vote No to assisted suicide. 
We see a similar correlation when we drill down into the health deprivation and disability scores (again, 1 = most deprived). The more deprivation there was by health, the greater the amount of disability, the more likely the Labour MP was to vote No.
I'm not a statistician, and this is only looking at one party's votes (though reasons of, eg, political conservatism amongst most Conservative MPs, whose constituencies tend to be less deprived, might explain a different correlation). But the statistics appear to show that at ...
at least those Labour MPs who voted for assisted suicide tended to represent more affluent constituencies with less deprivation in terms of health outcomes and disability. Put another way, those MPs whose constituents could be more vulnerable to assisted suicide voted against it.
(Happy to talk in detail about the stats analysis if anyone's genuinely interested in looking into this further. Follow me and send me a DM.)
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