Scraping Data from a Single Vote

A democratic parliament means the people of that country vote for their choice of leader, and whoever with the majority of votes wins. For this lesson, we will be looking at the data for Canadian voting statistics.

We will see how often parliament members vote strictly along party lines. If they’re always following their party leaders, then it would seem that they’re serving their parties. If, on the other hand, they often cast votes independently of their parties, then they might be thinking more about their own constituents.

This won’t ...