How Alex Gallacher voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should put a ban on new thermal coal mines opening in Australia

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for banning new thermal coal mines” which Alex Gallacher could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Alex Gallacher on this policy.

Division Alex Gallacher Supporters vote
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Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for banning new thermal coal mines” which Alex Gallacher could have attended.

Division Alex Gallacher Supporters vote

23rd Jun 2021, 4:39 PM – Senate Documents - Queensland: Coal Mining - Acland mine extension

No No

18th Mar 2021, 4:59 PM – Senate Motions - New South Wales: Coal Industry - Acknowledge importance

absent No

2nd Feb 2021, 4:10 PM – Senate Motions - Coal-Fired Power Stations - Build in the Hunter

absent No

16th Jun 2020, 4:50 PM – Senate Motions - Mining - Transition to renewables

absent Yes

11th Feb 2020, 4:07 PM – Senate Motions - Energy - Coal-fired power project

absent No

10th Feb 2020, 7:37 PM – Senate Motions - Mining - Revoke Adani environmental approvals

absent Yes

3rd Dec 2019, 4:00 PM – Senate Motions - Great Barrier Reef - Climate change

No Yes

11th Nov 2019, 4:05 PM – Senate Motions - Wallarah 2 Coal Project - Cancel approval

No Yes

17th Oct 2019, 12:48 PM – Senate Motions - Thermal Coal - Ban new mines

No Yes

16th Oct 2019, 4:40 PM – Senate Motions - Climate Change, Petroleum Industry - No new coal, oil or gas projects

No Yes

15th Oct 2019, 5:11 PM – Senate Motions - Tasmania: Mining - Prohibition

No Yes

24th Jul 2019, 3:47 PM – Senate Motions - Great Barrier Reef - Protect from climate change

No Yes

28th Nov 2018, 3:55 PM – Senate Motions - Coalmines in the Galilee Basin - Refuse

No Yes

27th Jun 2018, 4:20 PM – Senate Motions - Energy - More coal-fired power stations

No No

15th Feb 2018, 12:07 PM – Senate Motions - Climate Change - Action

No Yes

15th Jul 2014, 9:31 PM – Senate Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2014 and related bills - Second Reading - Protect from climate change

No Yes

17th Mar 2014, 1:46 PM – Senate Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 and related bills - Second Reading - Protect Australia from climate change

No Yes

How "voted generally 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 0
MP absent 50% 25 0
Less important votes MP voted with policy 100% 5 2
MP voted against policy 0% 5 10
MP absent 50% 1 5

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) = 12.5 / 65 = 19%.

And then this average agreement score