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Present views of constituents next to an MP's voting position.

Open RichardTaylor opened this issue 10 years ago • 12 comments

Next to a line on an MP or MP's votes page like:

"Voted very strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords"

show how many of our users from the relevant MP's constituency agree with the MP's voting record (and perhaps how many users overall do, or don't agree too). We'd need to collect that information from our users by asking them if they agree or not with eg. "a wholly elected House of Lords"

We'd hit the problem of validating users are from the constituency in question; and there's the question of if our users are a representative sample - they almost certainly aren't.

Due to the challenges in getting quality information this looks to me like one of the many things which others could build on top of our vote descriptions / policy positions; they could link back to the source data via TheyWorkForYou and presumably if they were good enough we could link their way too.

Alternatively it's a feature which could be added with lots of clear caveats.

Inspired by the Capitol Bells website - see one of their Bill pages which when not logged in shows degree of support for a Bill nationally among their users, and when logged in also shows degree of support within a constituency.

This ticket is for the idea of displaying such information next to a policy position. It could also be done in respect of a Bill (See #516 )

RichardTaylor avatar Apr 14 '14 12:04 RichardTaylor