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 May 06 | |||||
| nbpc | 14 | 2 | 7:1 | %88 | |
| nbliberal | 13 | 0 | 13:0 | %100 | |
| week of April 29 | |||||
| nbliberal | 24 | 3 | 8:1 | %89 | |
| nbpc | 9 | 0 | 9:0 | %100 | |
| week of April 22 | |||||
| nbliberal | 14 | 3 | 5:1 | %82 | |
| nbpc | 10 | 1 | 10:1 | %91 | |
| week of April 15 | |||||
| nbliberal | 34 | 4 | 9:1 | %89 | |
| nbpc | 1 | 4 | 1:0 | %20 | |
| week of April 08 | |||||
| nbliberal | 15 | 1 | 15:1 | %94 | |
| nbpc | 3 | 1 | 3:1 | %75 | |
| week of April 01 | |||||
| nbliberal | 5 | 1 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| nbpc | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| week of March 25 | |||||
| nbliberal | 30 | 7 | 4:1 | %81 | |
| nbpc | 2 | 1 | 2:1 | %67 | |
| week of March 18 | |||||
| nbliberal | 28 | 13 | 2:1 | %68 | |
| nbpc | 6 | 1 | 6:1 | %86 | |
| week of March 11 | |||||
| nbliberal | 35 | 4 | 9:1 | %90 | |
| nbpc | 9 | 0 | 9:0 | %100 | |
| week of March 04 | |||||
| nbliberal | 5 | 0 | 5:0 | %100 | |
| nbpc | 1 | 0 | 1:0 | %100 | |
| week of February 25 | |||||
| nbliberal | 32 | 3 | 11:1 | %91 | |
| nbpc | 2 | 2 | 1:0 | %50 | |
| week of February 18 | |||||
| nbliberal | 13 | 5 | 3:1 | %72 | |
| nbpc | 5 | 1 | 5:1 | %83 | |
| week of February 11 | |||||
| nbliberal | 46 | 1 | 46:1 | %98 | |
| nbpc | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| week of February 04 | |||||
| nbliberal | 19 | 2 | 10:1 | %90 | |
| nbpc | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| week of January 28 | |||||
| nbliberal | 19 | 3 | 6:1 | %86 | |
| nbpc | 9 | 0 | 9:0 | %100 | |
| week of January 21 | |||||
| nbliberal | 28 | 7 | 4:1 | %80 | |
| nbpc | 4 | 0 | 4:0 | %100 | |
| week of January 14 | |||||
| nbliberal | 6 | 2 | 3:1 | %75 | |
| nbpc | 2 | 0 | 2:0 | %100 | |
| week of January 07 | |||||
| nbliberal | 3 | 2 | 2:1 | %60 | |
| nbpc | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | %0 | |