How James Paterson voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should abandon the planned Stage 3 tax cuts which are due to take effect from July 2024

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for repealing Stage 3 tax cuts” which James Paterson could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of James Paterson on this policy.

Division James Paterson Supporters vote
no votes listed

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for repealing Stage 3 tax cuts” which James Paterson could have attended.

Division James Paterson Supporters vote

27th Feb 2024, 6:50 PM – Senate Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living Tax Cuts) Bill 2024 and Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living — Medicare Levy) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Criticism of Government

Yes No

27th Mar 2023, 5:16 PM – Senate Matters of Urgency - Pensions and Benefits - Scrap stage 3 tax cuts and fund other measures

absent Yes

8th Mar 2023, 5:42 PM – Senate Matters of Urgency - Gender Equality - Stage 3 cuts

absent Yes

8th Feb 2023, 6:19 PM – Senate Matters of Urgency - Income Tax - Reaffirm commitment to tax cuts

Yes No

7th Feb 2023, 12:59 PM – Senate Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 5) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Abandon Stage 3 tax cuts

No Yes

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 Yes

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

absent 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 3
MP absent 50% 1 4

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) = 2.0 / 19 = 11%.

And then this average agreement score