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 May 13 | |||||
| conservative | 1,124 | 319 | 4:1 | %78 | |
| liberal | 727 | 146 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| ndp | 358 | 67 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| week of May 06 | |||||
| conservative | 1,248 | 486 | 3:1 | %72 | |
| liberal | 858 | 216 | 4:1 | %80 | |
| ndp | 412 | 115 | 4:1 | %78 | |
| week of April 29 | |||||
| conservative | 1,878 | 570 | 3:1 | %77 | |
| liberal | 913 | 260 | 4:1 | %78 | |
| ndp | 624 | 140 | 4:1 | %82 | |
| week of April 22 | |||||
| conservative | 1,394 | 466 | 3:1 | %75 | |
| liberal | 1,291 | 341 | 4:1 | %79 | |
| ndp | 439 | 79 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| week of April 15 | |||||
| liberal | 2,218 | 477 | 5:1 | %82 | |
| conservative | 1,348 | 536 | 3:1 | %72 | |
| ndp | 584 | 104 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| week of April 08 | |||||
| liberal | 1,677 | 148 | 11:1 | %92 | |
| conservative | 1,288 | 410 | 3:1 | %76 | |
| ndp | 698 | 99 | 7:1 | %88 | |
| week of April 01 | |||||
| liberal | 1,988 | 325 | 6:1 | %86 | |
| conservative | 1,476 | 297 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| ndp | 306 | 45 | 7:1 | %87 | |
| week of March 25 | |||||
| conservative | 1,741 | 423 | 4:1 | %80 | |
| liberal | 1,452 | 225 | 6:1 | %87 | |
| ndp | 558 | 109 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| week of March 18 | |||||
| liberal | 1,574 | 270 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| conservative | 1,508 | 415 | 4:1 | %78 | |
| ndp | 566 | 110 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| week of March 11 | |||||
| liberal | 1,167 | 281 | 4:1 | %81 | |
| conservative | 968 | 259 | 4:1 | %79 | |
| ndp | 372 | 38 | 10:1 | %91 | |
| week of March 04 | |||||
| conservative | 1,146 | 300 | 4:1 | %79 | |
| liberal | 877 | 126 | 7:1 | %87 | |
| ndp | 590 | 76 | 8:1 | %89 | |
| week of February 25 | |||||
| liberal | 1,550 | 196 | 8:1 | %89 | |
| conservative | 1,053 | 257 | 4:1 | %80 | |
| ndp | 449 | 92 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| week of February 18 | |||||
| conservative | 899 | 201 | 4:1 | %82 | |
| liberal | 887 | 120 | 7:1 | %88 | |
| ndp | 240 | 51 | 5:1 | %82 | |
| week of February 11 | |||||
| liberal | 2,260 | 335 | 7:1 | %87 | |
| conservative | 1,093 | 284 | 4:1 | %79 | |
| ndp | 457 | 72 | 6:1 | %86 | |
| week of February 04 | |||||
| conservative | 1,422 | 388 | 4:1 | %79 | |
| liberal | 1,129 | 141 | 8:1 | %89 | |
| ndp | 436 | 76 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| week of January 28 | |||||
| conservative | 1,910 | 457 | 4:1 | %81 | |
| liberal | 1,650 | 228 | 7:1 | %88 | |
| ndp | 532 | 87 | 6:1 | %86 | |
| week of January 21 | |||||
| conservative | 1,411 | 364 | 4:1 | %79 | |
| liberal | 1,068 | 127 | 8:1 | %89 | |
| ndp | 234 | 55 | 4:1 | %81 | |
| week of January 14 | |||||
| conservative | 1,079 | 290 | 4:1 | %79 | |
| liberal | 676 | 63 | 11:1 | %91 | |
| ndp | 357 | 53 | 7:1 | %87 | |
| week of January 07 | |||||
| conservative | 2,051 | 387 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| liberal | 561 | 133 | 4:1 | %81 | |
| ndp | 228 | 58 | 4:1 | %80 | |
| week of December 31 | |||||
| ndp | 46 | 5 | 9:1 | %90 | |
| conservative | 4 | 1 | 4:1 | %80 | |