Automating Vote Tabulation

Learn and build a program that will automate the process of scraping and then tabulating hundreds of votes at a time.

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 42nd42^{nd} parliament. We’ll then pass the data to a new data frame called vote_list.

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