Automating Vote Tabulation
Explore how to automate vote tabulation by scraping parliamentary voting data with Python. Learn to categorize votes as party or non-party line by analyzing Yeas and Nays, handle URL extraction techniques, and filter unanimous votes to gain insights into government voting behaviors.
Identify the votes
The first problem we’ll need to solve is identifying the votes
we want to analyze. We’ll use our old friend pd.read_html to
scrape the page that lists all the votes on private members’
bills from the first session of the ...