How Concetta Fierravanti-Wells voted compared to someone who agrees that the Federal Government should amend the Marriage Act 1961 so that same-sex couples can marry under Australian law

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for same-sex marriage equality” which Concetta Fierravanti-Wells could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Concetta Fierravanti-Wells on this policy.

Division Concetta Fierravanti-Wells Supporters vote

29th Nov 2017, 1:30 PM – Senate Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 - Third Reading - Pass the bill

No Yes

20th Jun 2013, 11:28 AM – Senate Marriage Act Amendment (Recognition of Foreign Marriages for Same-Sex Couples) Bill 2013 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea

No Yes

20th Sep 2012, 4:15 PM – Senate Marriage Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012 - Second Reading - Read a second time

No Yes

25th Feb 2010, 4:05 PM – Senate Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009 - Second Reading - Read a second time

No Yes

12th Nov 2008, 6:53 PM – Senate Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws - General Law Reform) Bill 2008 - In Committee - Legalise same-sex marriage

absent Yes

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for same-sex marriage equality” which Concetta Fierravanti-Wells could have attended.

Division Concetta Fierravanti-Wells Supporters vote

7th Feb 2013, 12:22 PM – Senate Motions - UK Marriage Equality Legislation - Congratulate UK PM

absent Yes

11th Oct 2012, 12:11 PM – Senate Motions – State-based Marriage Equality Legislation – No Commonwealth challenge

absent Yes

21st Nov 2011 – Senate Matters of Urgency - Same-Sex Relationships - Recognise same sex marriage

absent Yes

11th Oct 2011 – Senate Motions - Same-Sex Relationships - Marriage

absent Yes

5th Jul 2011 – Senate Motions - Same-Sex Relationships - Support marriage equality

absent Yes

26th Nov 2009, 10:32 AM – Senate Motions - Civil Partnerships - ACT bill

absent Yes

26th Nov 2009, 10:27 AM – Senate Motions - National Year of Action on Marriage Equality

absent Yes

8th Feb 2007, 10:47 AM – Senate Motions - Same-Sex Relationships - ACT legalising same-sex relationships

No Yes

15th Jun 2006, 1:06 PM – Senate Motions - Australian Capital Territory Civil Unions Legislation - Disallow the government's attempt to disallow the legislation

No Yes

How "voted almost always against" is worked out

They Vote For You gives each vote a score based on whether the MP voted in agreement with the policy or not. These scores are then averaged with a weighting across all votes that the MP could have voted on relevant to the policy. The overall average score is then converted to a simple english language phrase based on the range of values it's within.

When an MP votes in agreement with a policy the vote is scored as 100%. When they vote against the policy it is scored as 0% and when they are absent it is scored half way between the two at 50%. The half way point effectively says "we don't know whether they are for or against this policy".

The overall agreement score for the policy is worked out by a weighted average of the scores for each vote. The weighting has been chosen so that the most important votes have a weighting 5 times that of the less important votes. Also, absent votes on less important votes are weighted 5 times less again to not penalise MPs for not attending the less important votes. Pressure of other work means MPs or Senators are not always available to vote – it does not always mean they've abstained.

Type of vote Agreement score (s) Weight (w) No of votes (n)
Most important votes MP voted with policy 100% 25 0
MP voted against policy 0% 25 4
MP absent 50% 25 1
Less important votes MP voted with policy 100% 5 0
MP voted against policy 0% 5 2
MP absent 50% 1 7

The final agreement score is a weighted average (weighted arithmetic mean) of the scores of the individual votes.

Average agreement score = sum(n×w×s) / sum(n×w) = 16.0 / 142 = 11%.

And then this average agreement score