How Jim Molan voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should reduce the amount of income tax that high-income earners (those who earn over $200,000 per year) must pay each year

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for reducing taxes for high-income earners” which Jim Molan could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Jim Molan on this policy.

Division Jim Molan Supporters vote

21st Jun 2018, 11:55 AM – Senate Treasury Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Plan) Bill 2018 - Adoption of Report - Don't insist on amendments

Yes Yes

21st Jun 2018, 11:41 AM – Senate Treasury Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Plan) Bill 2018 - Consideration of House of Representatives Message - Don't insist on amendments

Yes Yes

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for reducing taxes for high-income earners” which Jim Molan could have attended.

Division Jim Molan Supporters vote

26th Oct 2022, 10:46 AM – Senate Supply Bill (No. 3) 2022-2023, Supply Bill (No. 4) 2022-2023 and another - Second Reading - Repeal stage 3 tax cuts

absent No

7th Sep 2022, 5:34 PM – Senate Matters of Urgency - Taxation - Stage 3 tax cuts

absent No

How "voted consistently for" 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 2
MP voted against policy 0% 25 0
MP absent 50% 25 0
Less important votes MP voted with policy 100% 5 0
MP voted against policy 0% 5 0
MP absent 50% 1 2

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) = 51.0 / 52 = 98%.

And then this average agreement score