TheyWorkForYou Votes is mySociety’s new platform that provides more information than ever about how MPs (and other elected representatives) have voted.
It’s launching on Tuesday 20th May, and we’re running an event where you can learn all about it.
Votes in the UK’s Parliaments determine the laws that we all live by, and we want the information about who voted for what to be as accurate, easy to use and easy to understand as possible.
Whether you’re a data whizz who wants to get into the details, or a citizen who wants to know whether your MP has been paying attention to your emails, we think this new service will be helpful to you. Thanks to TheyWorkForYou Votes, we’ve been able to make improvements to our own websites (like TheyWorkForYou and the Local Intelligence Hub), and also, true to our open source principles, we’re making more data available in more formats that you can use and re-use for your own clever tools!
Join us for our launch event at 1pm Tuesday 20th May to cover both why we publish votes, and what you can get out of the new platform.
Register on Eventbrite now to hear from:
- Louise Crow, mySociety’s Chief Exec
- Dr Ben Worthy, Birkbeck University
- Alex Parsons & Julia Cushion, mySociety’s democracy team
See you in a couple of weeks!
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Image: UK Parliament (CC BY 2.0)
