https://michel-slm.name/tags/voting/ Recent content in Voting on Pensées de Michel Hugo en-us <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY 4.0</a> Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://michel-slm.name/posts/2026-06-24-oireachtas-votes-per-party-tally/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://michel-slm.name/posts/2026-06-24-oireachtas-votes-per-party-tally/ <blockquote> <p><strong>Caveat lector</strong></p> <p>This post discusses tools reluctantly written with AI assistance. If you don&rsquo;t entertain using them under any circumstance, and think even reading about them legally compromise your ability to reimplement them yourselves, stop reading now</p> </blockquote> <p>Irish politics is refreshingly civilized by US or UK standards &ndash; so much so, in fact, that the otherwise-excellent <a href="https://github.com/michel-slm/oireachtas-votes/issues">Oireachtas votes page</a> does not break down votes by party affiliation!</p> <p>The raw data is actually there - which TD belongs to which party - and when the topic is contentious (like the recent vote to waive the three-day waiting period for abortion) - it does not help to know that <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/06/17/sinn-fein-bill-on-abortion-services-passes-crucial-dail-vote-with-help-of-ministers/">some coalition ministers vote for it</a>. How about the rest of the governing parties?</p>