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 10 | |||||
| bcliberal | 267 | 49 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| bcndp | 108 | 12 | 9:1 | %90 | |
| week of June 03 | |||||
| bcliberal | 335 | 65 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| bcndp | 36 | 4 | 9:1 | %90 | |
| week of May 27 | |||||
| bcliberal | 187 | 36 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| bcndp | 50 | 11 | 5:1 | %82 | |
| week of May 20 | |||||
| bcliberal | 136 | 45 | 3:1 | %75 | |
| bcndp | 73 | 31 | 2:1 | %70 | |
| week of May 13 | |||||
| bcliberal | 1,505 | 330 | 5:1 | %82 | |
| bcndp | 634 | 180 | 4:1 | %78 | |
| week of May 06 | |||||
| bcliberal | 982 | 276 | 4:1 | %78 | |
| bcndp | 855 | 130 | 7:1 | %87 | |
| week of April 29 | |||||
| bcliberal | 893 | 314 | 3:1 | %74 | |
| bcndp | 674 | 144 | 5:1 | %82 | |
| week of April 22 | |||||
| bcliberal | 848 | 181 | 5:1 | %82 | |
| bcndp | 692 | 151 | 5:1 | %82 | |
| week of April 15 | |||||
| bcliberal | 615 | 126 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| bcndp | 576 | 61 | 9:1 | %90 | |
| week of April 08 | |||||
| bcliberal | 585 | 191 | 3:1 | %75 | |
| bcndp | 388 | 57 | 7:1 | %87 | |
| week of April 01 | |||||
| bcliberal | 342 | 88 | 4:1 | %80 | |
| bcndp | 229 | 43 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| week of March 25 | |||||
| bcliberal | 265 | 65 | 4:1 | %80 | |
| bcndp | 112 | 19 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| week of March 18 | |||||
| bcliberal | 402 | 73 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| bcndp | 178 | 22 | 8:1 | %89 | |
| week of March 11 | |||||
| bcliberal | 391 | 107 | 4:1 | %79 | |
| bcndp | 235 | 45 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| week of March 04 | |||||
| bcliberal | 332 | 97 | 3:1 | %77 | |
| bcndp | 161 | 26 | 6:1 | %86 | |
| week of February 25 | |||||
| bcliberal | 420 | 102 | 4:1 | %80 | |
| bcndp | 155 | 19 | 8:1 | %89 | |
| week of February 18 | |||||
| bcliberal | 289 | 88 | 3:1 | %77 | |
| bcndp | 130 | 30 | 4:1 | %81 | |
| week of February 11 | |||||
| bcliberal | 302 | 61 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| bcndp | 174 | 33 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| week of February 04 | |||||
| bcliberal | 324 | 57 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| bcndp | 121 | 39 | 3:1 | %76 | |
| week of January 28 | |||||
| bcliberal | 252 | 55 | 5:1 | %82 | |
| bcndp | 110 | 19 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| week of January 21 | |||||
| bcliberal | 449 | 89 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| bcndp | 152 | 27 | 6:1 | %85 | |
| week of January 14 | |||||
| bcliberal | 355 | 68 | 5:1 | %84 | |
| bcndp | 130 | 10 | 13:1 | %93 | |
| week of January 07 | |||||
| bcliberal | 127 | 21 | 6:1 | %86 | |
| bcndp | 60 | 19 | 3:1 | %76 | |
| week of December 31 | |||||
| bcndp | 14 | 3 | 5:1 | %82 | |
| bcliberal | 12 | 2 | 6:1 | %86 | |