What we publish
We publish individually recorded votes from formal divisions in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Voice votes (“Question put and agreed to”) are not treated as individual recorded votes. Official division totals from Hansard are kept separately from extracted name lists.
Sources
Primary source: official Hansard PDFs from ttparliament.org. Minutes of Proceedings are a secondary source when available; Standing Orders require Minutes to record members who declined to vote. Chamber Minutes are not yet systematically published online as a browsable archive.
Safeguards
- We never infer a vote from party membership.
- We never infer abstention from an omitted name.
- We never infer absence without supporting attendance evidence.
- Extractions enter a staging queue and are published only after verification.
- Low-confidence OCR results are never auto-published.
- Discrepancies between sources are flagged for review, not silently resolved.
Historical coverage
The database schema supports records from the 2nd Republican Parliament (1981) onward. Practical digital Hansard coverage is strongest from the 5th Parliament onward; earlier periods are incomplete until archives are located and verified. Every public page that shows percentages also shows denominators and coverage notes.
Corrections
Parliamentarians and the public may challenge a record via the dispute form on each division page. Challenges create an audit trail for administrators; they do not silently rewrite history.