This page tracks the sentiment of @reply & tweets mentioning an MLAs name. The data is collected every week so graphs of an MLAs sentiment over time can be made.
The amount of positive, negative & neutral sentiments are tracked each week for every MLA on Twitter. View an individual MLAs stats page to view their sentiment graph.
The charts below total the sentimate of a parties MLAs, so we can compare the overal sentimate by party.
Politwitter scans all the tweets mentioning an MLA 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 MLAs sentiment stats combined by party.
| party | positive | negative | ratio | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| week of June 17 | |||||
| albertandp | 78 | 12 | 7:1 | %87 | |
| albertaliberal | 19 | 6 | 3:1 | %76 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of June 10 | |||||
| albertaliberal | 83 | 9 | 9:1 | %90 | |
| albertandp | 9 | 2 | 5:1 | %82 | |
| albertapc | 3 | 0 | 3:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of June 03 | |||||
| albertandp | 21 | 7 | 3:1 | %75 | |
| albertaliberal | 14 | 0 | 14:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 0 | 1 | 0:1 | %0 | |
| week of May 27 | |||||
| albertandp | 12 | 1 | 12:1 | %92 | |
| wildrose | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertaliberal | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of May 20 | |||||
| albertandp | 41 | 1 | 41:1 | %98 | |
| albertaliberal | 2 | 1 | 2:1 | %67 | |
| albertaparty | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of May 13 | |||||
| albertandp | 33 | 4 | 8:1 | %89 | |
| albertaparty | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertaliberal | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of May 06 | |||||
| albertandp | 7 | 0 | 7:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 1 | 1 | 1:0 | %50 | |
| albertaliberal | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of April 29 | |||||
| albertandp | 55 | 8 | 7:1 | %87 | |
| albertaliberal | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 1 | 0:1 | %0 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertaparty | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of April 22 | |||||
| albertandp | 19 | 2 | 10:1 | %90 | |
| albertaliberal | 3 | 0 | 3:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| week of April 15 | |||||
| albertandp | 332 | 73 | 5:1 | %82 | |
| albertapc | 4 | 0 | 4:0 | %100 | |
| albertaliberal | 3 | 1 | 3:1 | %75 | |
| albertaparty | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of April 08 | |||||
| albertandp | 452 | 82 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| albertaliberal | 7 | 0 | 7:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 6 | 1 | 6:1 | %86 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of April 01 | |||||
| albertandp | 276 | 71 | 4:1 | %80 | |
| albertaliberal | 9 | 0 | 9:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 2 | 2 | 1:0 | %50 | |
| albertaparty | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| week of March 25 | |||||
| albertandp | 164 | 31 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| albertaliberal | 3 | 0 | 3:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of March 18 | |||||
| albertandp | 217 | 45 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| albertaliberal | 2 | 1 | 2:1 | %67 | |
| albertaparty | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of March 11 | |||||
| albertandp | 44 | 9 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| albertaliberal | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertaparty | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of March 04 | |||||
| albertandp | 101 | 19 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| albertaparty | 8 | 1 | 8:1 | %89 | |
| albertaliberal | 7 | 0 | 7:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of February 25 | |||||
| albertandp | 75 | 23 | 3:1 | %77 | |
| albertaliberal | 19 | 3 | 6:1 | %86 | |
| albertaparty | 4 | 2 | 2:1 | %67 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of February 18 | |||||
| albertandp | 111 | 22 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| albertaliberal | 21 | 4 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| albertapc | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 2 | 1 | 2:1 | %67 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of February 11 | |||||
| albertandp | 44 | 9 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| albertaliberal | 7 | 0 | 7:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of February 04 | |||||
| albertandp | 38 | 1 | 38:1 | %97 | |
| albertapc | 3 | 0 | 3:0 | %100 | |
| albertaliberal | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |