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 December 03 | |||||
| albertandp | 67 | 3 | 22:1 | %96 | |
| albertaparty | 7 | 1 | 7:1 | %88 | |
| albertaliberal | 3 | 2 | 2:1 | %60 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of November 26 | |||||
| albertandp | 63 | 8 | 8:1 | %89 | |
| albertaliberal | 6 | 0 | 6:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 2 | 1 | 2:1 | %67 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of November 19 | |||||
| albertandp | 62 | 12 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| albertaliberal | 4 | 1 | 4:1 | %80 | |
| albertapc | 4 | 0 | 4:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 2 | 1 | 2:1 | %67 | |
| wildrose | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| week of November 12 | |||||
| albertandp | 44 | 8 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| albertaparty | 3 | 0 | 3:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertaliberal | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of November 05 | |||||
| albertandp | 32 | 5 | 6:1 | %86 | |
| albertaliberal | 3 | 1 | 3:1 | %75 | |
| albertaparty | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of October 29 | |||||
| albertandp | 31 | 11 | 3:1 | %74 | |
| albertaliberal | 5 | 0 | 5:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 3 | 0 | 3:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of October 22 | |||||
| albertandp | 64 | 8 | 8:1 | %89 | |
| albertaliberal | 31 | 5 | 6:1 | %86 | |
| albertaparty | 7 | 0 | 7:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of October 15 | |||||
| albertandp | 26 | 6 | 4:1 | %81 | |
| albertaliberal | 7 | 1 | 7:1 | %88 | |
| albertaparty | 2 | 1 | 2:1 | %67 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of October 08 | |||||
| albertandp | 69 | 12 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| albertaparty | 3 | 1 | 3:1 | %75 | |
| albertaliberal | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of October 01 | |||||
| albertandp | 81 | 17 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| albertaliberal | 3 | 1 | 3:1 | %75 | |
| albertaparty | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of September 17 | |||||
| albertandp | 64 | 8 | 8:1 | %89 | |
| albertaliberal | 7 | 2 | 4:1 | %78 | |
| albertaparty | 2 | 1 | 2:1 | %67 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of September 10 | |||||
| albertandp | 37 | 3 | 12:1 | %93 | |
| albertaparty | 4 | 0 | 4:0 | %100 | |
| albertaliberal | 3 | 0 | 3:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of September 03 | |||||
| albertandp | 179 | 35 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| albertapc | 4 | 0 | 4:0 | %100 | |
| albertaliberal | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertaparty | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of August 27 | |||||
| albertandp | 376 | 63 | 6:1 | %86 | |
| albertaliberal | 6 | 0 | 6:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 1 | 1 | 1:0 | %50 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of August 20 | |||||
| albertandp | 20 | 1 | 20:1 | %95 | |
| albertaliberal | 5 | 1 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of August 13 | |||||
| albertandp | 25 | 5 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| albertaliberal | 6 | 0 | 6:0 | %100 | |
| albertaparty | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of August 06 | |||||
| albertandp | 22 | 3 | 7:1 | %88 | |
| albertaparty | 6 | 0 | 6:0 | %100 | |
| albertaliberal | 3 | 0 | 3:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of July 30 | |||||
| albertandp | 21 | 4 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| albertaparty | 5 | 2 | 3:1 | %71 | |
| albertaliberal | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of July 23 | |||||
| albertandp | 30 | 6 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| albertaparty | 4 | 0 | 4:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| albertaliberal | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| week of July 16 | |||||
| albertandp | 63 | 15 | 4:1 | %81 | |
| albertaliberal | 3 | 0 | 3:0 | %100 | |
| albertapc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |
| albertaparty | 0 | 1 | 0:1 | %0 | |
| wildrose | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |