Interactive UK MP Performance & Attendance Data Visualization Service
A user clearly indicated a need for more detailed information: "We need to drill down to individual MPs." This suggests an opportunity for an enhanced information resource, likely in the form of an interactive web platform.
Product Suggestion: An Interactive UK Parliamentarian Performance Tracker.
This web platform would allow users to:
- View aggregated data, such as average party attendance (as in the original post).
- Most importantly, dive into detailed performance metrics for individual MPs. This would include:
- Attendance records (for votes, debates, and committees).
- Voting history on key legislation.
- Speaking contributions in Parliament.
- Committee memberships and roles.
- Registered interests and expenses (if publicly available via API).
- Filter, sort, and compare MPs based on various criteria (e.g., party, constituency, specific policy votes, attendance ranges).
- Visualize individual and comparative MP data through charts and graphs for easier interpretation.
Expected Benefit: The platform would empower voters, journalists, researchers, and advocacy groups by providing transparent, accessible, and detailed data on MP activities. This facilitates greater accountability, allows for more informed civic engagement and electoral decisions, and supports in-depth analysis of parliamentary performance beyond high-level summaries. It addresses the expressed user need for deeper, individualized insights into MP engagement.
Origin Reddit Post
r/dataisbeautiful
[OC] Average MP attendance by Party in the UK. (Since the last election)
Posted by u/M4ttT10•05/28/2025
Data sourced from the UK Parliament's API: [https://developer.parliament.uk/](https://developer.parliament.uk/)
Created using Python and matplotlib.
Top Comments
u/Repli3rd
But then it's still wrong. Labour is to the right of the LDs on most currently contentious social issues and economic issues in terms of tax and spend.
u/DenizzineD
This is a very noticeable trend for most of the far-right parties in the EU.
u/Ill_Refrigerator_593
Unfortunately Reforms tend to do neither spending much of their time in the USA or Dubai.
u/Real-Pomegranate-235
Nigel has visited America more times than his own constituency.
u/Scalage89
I'm surprised Reform's attendance is so high.
u/_87-
they're good at spreading disinformation and getting people riled up but they're not good at doing the actual work.
u/drivenotmycar
Plus, a party calling themselves "Reform" is manipulative in itself. What kind of reform? I'd like some kind of reform. Just not reform led by a snake oil salesman.
An uneducated voter who's
u/WatchTheNewMutants
i've known skivers who've shown up more than reform does
u/Dalimyr
Honestly surprised Reform's percentage is as high as it is. Back when he was an MEP, Farage was infamous for having the second-worst vote attendance record of any active MEP (out of 746 MEPs
u/Stone_tigris
A reminder that MPs serve their constituents in a variety of ways that are not sitting in the Commons Chamber such as preparing for debates they’ll actually contribute to, preparing for commi
u/Every-Switch2264
Or getting into scandals for saying/doing something racist and/or sexist and/or queerphobic.
u/MrHelfer
I have to say, I think you should switch Labour and the Green Party - this makes it look like Green has a higher attendance than Labour.
Either that, or make it alphabetical.
u/molseh
Absolutely, in fact, I would prefer my MP to spend more time in his constituency than arguing pointlessly against the incumbents on things they are ultimately not going to be budging on.
u/Floatingamer
All the other parties really need to up their game, reform is somehow competing with them despite their leader not visiting his own constituency
u/M4ttT10
Yeh that's a good point thank you. I organised it left to right originally based on politics, and then had to split it across two lines.
u/BubbhaJebus
Reform's logo with an arrow pointing towards the far right...
u/Every-Switch2264
His first is to suck off Trump
u/rclonecopymove
In fairness, this is vote attendance and not attendance in the chamber but you're absolutely correct. The time it takes to travel to Westminster for some MPs is bonkers if the vote is on some
u/MindlessWoot
Absolutely agreed.
It's such a shame, though, that a certain party is [not spending their time that way](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/20/clacton-nigel-farage-first-months-as
u/PurahsHero
To be fair, Reform's leader's second job is to be MP for Clacton.
u/keepingitsession
It’s a cynical choice for the ballot sheet. An arrow pointing to the box to mark x.
Before Reform ragers come charging in, lots will make a conscious choice to vote for Reform but there are
u/alyssa264
Adding another comment to say you dun fucked up sticking Labour to the left of the Lib Dems in the current political climate. The voters and the party are not really seeing eye to eye at all
u/Maswimelleu
This means very little and is pretty misleading. As you would expect, the governing party makes much more of an effort to ensure its business gets voted for by its own MPs, and opposition par
u/Targettio
While does make some sense as a sort, but could lead to potential accusations of bias.
Especially when some could make arguments for labour being right of lib dem.
At least I would disclos
u/Nit_not
We need the drill down to individual MP's, they'll be a couple of reform mp's sleeping on the benches to bump the stats up