bradenneufeld
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9 years ago Not out of place at all! Thanks for taking the time to give your feedback! Both features are very much ones we want to implement, though the comparison tool will take some time. The idea of using the party leader as an indicator for a whipped vote is interesting - we were playing with the idea of checking to see if a party's members voted as an overwhelming majority one way or another on each bill, but perhaps a combination of the two methods would be more effective.
I hope this request isn't out of place, I've never used GitHub before but didn't see any other way to contact you.
Would it be possible to include in the MP's voting profile on each bill whether or not the specific party leader voted the same way? Ideally there would be a way to indicate whether a vote was whipped or not, but that info probably isn't in the openparliament db, so seeing at a glance if or how often the vote follows the leader specifically would probably be a decent stand-in.
The ability to compare/contrast two or more MP voting records at once would also be great.
Thank you all again for creating this thing, seriously not a moment too soon!!