How Linda Reynolds voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should increase their support of Australia's dairy industry by, for example, regulating increased milk prices

Most important divisions relevant to this policy

These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for increasing government support for the dairy industry” which Linda Reynolds could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Linda Reynolds on this policy.

Division Linda Reynolds Supporters vote

11th Nov 2019, 1:40 PM – Senate Protecting Australian Dairy Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea

absent Yes

Other divisions relevant to this policy

These are less important divisions which are related to the policy “for increasing government support for the dairy industry” which Linda Reynolds could have attended.

Division Linda Reynolds Supporters vote

3rd Dec 2019, 4:28 PM – Senate Documents - Dairy Industry - Order for the Production of Documents

No Yes

17th Oct 2019, 12:12 PM – Senate Committees - Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee - Reference

No Yes

15th Oct 2019, 7:24 PM – Senate Matters of Urgency - Dairy Industry - Fair price

No Yes

15th Oct 2019, 5:50 PM – Senate Motions - Dairy Industry - Support

No Yes

13th Sep 2018, 12:18 PM – Senate Motions - Dairy Industry - Introduce protections

No Yes

14th Aug 2018, 3:53 PM – Senate Motions - Dairy Industry - Raise price of milk to help farmers

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 1
Less important votes MP voted with policy 100% 5 0
MP voted against policy 0% 5 6
MP absent 50% 1 0

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 / 55 = 23%.

And then this average agreement score