MP Scorecard — Methodology

Every member's performance score is computed transparently from activity the public can verify. This page documents exactly how it is calculated.

The components

Component	Weight	What it measures
Contributions	30%	Hansard speeches and interventions, relative to the most active member in the House. Counts only speech made as a Member of Parliament — speech made while presiding (as Speaker, Deputy Speaker or Chair of a Committee of the Whole) is shown on the profile but excluded from the score.
Division participation	25%	Share of the recorded divisions (formal recorded votes) we have captured in which the member cast a vote. This is NOT physical sitting attendance — it measures participation in recorded votes only, and the denominator is the set of recorded divisions in our data, not every sitting the member could have attended.
Bills sponsored	15%	Bills sponsored, relative to the most prolific sponsor in the House. Cross-source duplicate rows are excluded, so this matches the member's own profile.
Committee work	15%	Committee memberships (chairs and vice-chairs weighted higher), plus the reports produced by committees the member chairs.
Legislative initiative	15%	Motions moved (as mover), questions asked, petitions presented, statements made and papers laid.

Each component is scored from 0–100. Relative components (contributions, Bills, committee work, initiative) are scored against the best performer in the same House; division participation is an absolute percentage — the share of the recorded divisions we have captured in which the member cast a vote. It is not physical sitting attendance, and its denominator is the set of recorded divisions in our data, not every sitting the member could attend.
The overall score is the weighted average of the components (weights total 100%).
Fairness rule: if a component has no data for a House yet (for example Senate contribution counts, or motions before they are published), its weight is removed and the remaining weights are rescaled — so missing data never unfairly lowers a member's score.
Scores are recomputed as new Hansard, votes and legislative records are ingested.

Every member is ranked by overall score against their peers in the same House — National Assembly members against the National Assembly, Senators against the Senate. The two Houses are never mixed.
A member's percentile is the share of peers in their House they match or beat on overall score. We surface this as the friendlier "Top X%" (for example, "Top 12% of the National Assembly") alongside the member's rank.
Each component also shows the member's value next to the House average, with an above/below indicator, so you can see exactly where a member is stronger or weaker than a typical colleague.

The score is an indicator of measurable activity, not a judgement of a member's overall worth. Corrections are welcome via Contact.