Voting Alignment – Across Chambers

This tool compares two politicians' positions on the same bills, sourced from the Australian Parliament's own division records at aph.gov.au, even when the two people sit in different chambers.

A House division and a Senate division are never the same vote — even for the same bill — so there's nothing to match person-to-person at the individual-division level across chambers. Instead, each person's position on a bill is taken from their vote on that bill's final second/third-reading division where one exists (the clearest "did you support this becoming law" signal); if they have no recorded final-passage vote on it, their most recent recorded vote on the bill is used instead. Every bill both people have a derived position for counts once, equally.

Comparing votes within House or Senate is going to be a far more accurate indication of voting than between the two. While the comparison we are showing is for when they vote on the same legislation, it is inherently not in the same debate or circumstances.

Includes every former member with a recorded vote since this data begins, not just those currently sitting — look for the "former" tag in the picker.

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