Information is Beautiful Friday: Tory vs Labour voting records on gay rights

David Cameron recently stepped forward to support the teaching of gay equality in schools as a way of countering homophobia. At the same time, the Lib Dems released pointing out that sections of Cameron's shadow cabinet had voted against gay equalities legislation in the past - including Cameron himself. The LibDem report concluded that 30% of Cameron's cabinet had voted against gay rights in the past. But I struggled to interpret the finer deters. So (inevitably) I thought I would visualise the results instead. And, to be fair, I also went through the voting record of the current Labour Cabinet to see who had voted against gay rights legislation. This chart depicts the results, side-by-side. The data is here (with some additional information on voting records) if you want to explore further. Additional research: Alexia Wdowski, Peter Harrington Additional design: Joe Swainson About David McCandless I run InformationIsBeautiful.net , dedicated to visualising information, ideas, stories and data. My book of infographic exploria, Information Is Beautiful is published in the UK on 4th February 2010. In the US, the book's called The Visual Miscellaneum World government data • Search the world's government with our gateway Can you do something with our 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