i don't think anyone cares (hence the .png instead of actual data) but i've been noodling around with the #TOcouncil voting record. this is for Chow's tenure, each column showing identical votes as a percentage of the councillor's max votes.
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@paulnatsuo that would take a lot of curating!
In my spreadsheet I also note how close a vote was, which can also be telling.
A problem with vote number-crunching in general is that 1) it excludes "show of hands" motions, and 2) in many cases the consensus-building has been done beforehand.
anyway aside from showing what an outlier holyday is, it also shows what an outlier Bradford is; he has basically spent the past 3 years trying to distinguish himself as Not Like Olivia Chow rather than cultivating allies.
(it's very janky but basically, for the column Cllr A, it compares how many times Cllr A and Cllr B, C, D, etc., both voted "yes" or both voted "no", as a percentage of all of Cllr A's votes. and so on for all the combinations. if anyone knows a better way to do this please for the love of god help me.)
@nev I love this. I do feel like Shan's shorter time in council is unfairly letting Holyday and his nonsense off the hook, though
@cargot_robbie if one looks at Shan's column, i. e. just the votes he was there for, it shows he isn't really an outlier.
@nev I'd love to slice this according to who made a particular motion/amendment and whether it passed or failed.
The impression I get from your & Matt's coverage is that Bradford often proposed amendments for the same kind of posturing purpose, but they often got voted down. I guess there's some stat that could illustrate that.