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mp_vote_record issue
When using the function mp_vote_record()
I'm finding a discrepancy for some MPs when compared with the Hansard website.
David Cameron, for example, has 252 voting records over his time as PM from the Hansard website: https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?memberId=1467&startDate=2010-05-11&endDate=2016-07-13&type=Divisions&outputType=List&partial=False
but I only get 212 when I run my R script:
Cameron_vote_record <- mp_vote_record(1467, start_date = "2010-05-11", end_date = "2016-07-13", verbose = FALSE)
There appears to be data missing from the data.parliament API between 2015-03-26 and 2016-03-14. I'm not sure as to the status of the underlying API. I'll take a look in the next couple of weeks if I have time and try to get back to you.