This page tracks the sentiment of @reply & tweets mentioning an MPs name. The data is collected every week so graphs of an MPs sentiment over time can be made.
The amount of positive, negative & neutral sentiments are tracked each week for every MP on Twitter. View an individual MPs stats page to view their sentiment graph.
The charts below total the sentimate of a parties MPs, so we can compare the overal sentimate by party.
Politwitter scans all the tweets mentioning an MP each week and uses a dictionary of positive and negative words to determine the sentimate of each tweet.
This method can never produce 100% accurate data for every tweet, but can give a general impression.
percentage of positive tweets compared to negative tweets
Party Sentiment Log
all MPs sentiment stats combined by party.
| party | positive | negative | ratio | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| week of December 31 | |||||
| liberal | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| ndp | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| conservative | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of February 20 | |||||
| conservative | 1,359 | 363 | 4:1 | %79 | |
| liberal | 907 | 237 | 4:1 | %79 | |
| ndp | 707 | 108 | 7:1 | %87 | |
| week of February 13 | |||||
| conservative | 689 | 191 | 4:1 | %78 | |
| ndp | 614 | 121 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| liberal | 360 | 98 | 4:1 | %79 | |
| week of February 06 | |||||
| conservative | 817 | 241 | 3:1 | %77 | |
| ndp | 633 | 109 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| liberal | 478 | 122 | 4:1 | %80 | |
| week of January 30 | |||||
| conservative | 717 | 171 | 4:1 | %81 | |
| ndp | 492 | 63 | 8:1 | %89 | |
| liberal | 353 | 60 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| week of January 23 | |||||
| liberal | 462 | 50 | 9:1 | %90 | |
| ndp | 447 | 51 | 9:1 | %90 | |
| conservative | 446 | 104 | 4:1 | %81 | |
| week of January 16 | |||||
| conservative | 617 | 169 | 4:1 | %78 | |
| liberal | 615 | 91 | 7:1 | %87 | |
| ndp | 383 | 40 | 10:1 | %91 | |
| week of January 09 | |||||
| conservative | 388 | 122 | 3:1 | %76 | |
| ndp | 360 | 23 | 16:1 | %94 | |
| liberal | 202 | 37 | 5:1 | %85 | |