Parliament in Evidence: the recorded vote, with source and hash.

What this is

Position revealed by vote (VOTE_OBSERVED) is what the voting panel recorded: Yes, No, Abstention, Obstruction or absence, per member and per roll-call vote. Speech (SPEECH_OBSERVED) is the Chamber record of who spoke, when, in which phase and with which official summary; the transcript stays at the source. The two classes are never mixed: a member may say X and vote Y, and the difference is information.

This page gives no score, places no one on a left or right scale and recommends no vote. Alignment with a guidance counts votes equal to the guidance the leadership published; it does not say why the vote was cast.

Parties

Votes with a page

The 60 open votes with the highest relative participation (present over members in office), from highest to lowest.

Method

Formula Rice(party, vote) = |Yes - No| / (Yes + No), only when Yes + No >= 3; abstention, obstruction and absence are excluded

Formula party cohesion = simple mean of Rice over the open roll-call votes of the period where Rice was computed

Formula party alignment = votes equal to the own party guidance (or the federation guidance when the party gives none) / comparable votes (guidance and vote in Yes, No, Abstention or Obstruction; Free vote, no guidance and bloc-only guidance are excluded)

Formula government alignment = votes equal to the Government leadership guidance / comparable votes (same rule)

Formula guidance equal to the government = votes where the party guidance matches the Government leadership guidance / votes where both are comparable

Formula attendance (Chamber) = roll-call votes with a recorded vote / roll-call votes of the period; the API lists only who recorded a vote, so a substitute who took office mid-period shows a lower rate

Formula attendance (Senate) = votes where the senator is listed as present (voted, Yes, No, Abstention, present without vote or presiding) / votes where the senator is listed

Declared limits

• Parliamentary blocs: the API truncates the bloc name and does not say which parties form it; guidance given only by the bloc is left out of alignment. Federations are included (a federation acts as one party in the legislature).
• Senate: the API publishes neither party nor Government guidance; Senate alignment stays unknown. Secret votes count for attendance only.
• Chamber attendance: the API lists only who recorded a vote; a substitute who took office mid-period shows a lower rate. Leave and official missions are not separated from absence.
• The party of each vote is the one recorded in that vote; the member list uses the current party.
• Official text (description, summary, abstract) is shown in Portuguese, without HTML markup and with dashes as hyphens.

Sources

• Source manifest (JSON)
• Summary by party (JSON)
• API documentation: Chamber of Deputies
• API documentation: Federal Senate

Evidence states

Observed Derived Unknown

Observed: a field copied from an official response with the hash checked. Derived: a count over observed data, with formula. Unknown: not enough data, or no source publishes it.