How Bob Day voted compared to someone who agrees that the Australian Government should publicly release more information about the contents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal and its position in the negotiations

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations” which Bob Day could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Bob Day on this policy.

Division Bob Day Supporters vote
no votes listed

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for greater public scrutiny of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations” which Bob Day could have attended.

Division Bob Day Supporters vote

13th Oct 2015, 4:02 PM – Senate Motions — Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

No Yes

26th Mar 2015, 1:26 PM – Senate Motions - Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement - Undertake a cost benefit analysis

absent Yes

11th Feb 2015, 3:50 PM – Senate Motions — Request for more transparency in Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

absent Yes

29th Oct 2014 – Senate Motions - Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement - Give members of Parliament access to the draft text

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 0
MP absent 50% 25 0
Less important votes MP voted with policy 100% 5 0
MP voted against policy 0% 5 2
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) = 1.0 / 12 = 8%.

And then this average agreement score