General election 2010: Do the Liberal Democrats vote with the Tories?

Good Spot by Guido Fawkes today, in the wake of the Liberal Democrats' poll bounce. Analysis by They Work For You's rather excellent Public Whip blog looks at the voting records of every MP in each parliament (at the blog post you can choose which MP you want to focus on). The dots show MPs voting together. The left to right dispersal doesn't mean anything politically - it's just a way of showing who votes with who. It appears to show the LibDems grouping with the Conservatives more than Labour - watch how the yellow dots move away from the red and towards the blue over time. Fawkes (obviously) says it shows: Increasingly over the course of the last three parliaments the LibDems more and more vote with the Tories. Public Whip has also supplied the data (links are below) so you can play around with it. What do you think? Download the data • 1997 parliament votes (txt) • 2001 parliament votes (txt) • 2005 parliament votes (txt) • Lords votes (txt) World government data • Search the world's government data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter