Methodology

This site is an information tool, not a verdict. We publish sourced facts and two separate, clearly-labelled measures. We never combine them into a single score, and we never editorialise.

Two independent axes

Every representative is shown on two axes that are stored and computed separately, so that public opinion can never move the factual measure:

• Verified Performance — built only from official, government-sourced data.
• Public Sentiment — open public ratings. This is opinion, explicitly labelled “not verified”.

Verified Performance

For Members of Parliament we use official parliamentary metrics: attendance, questions asked, debates participated in, private member bills, and constituency-fund (MPLADS) utilisation. Each metric is converted to a percentile within a comparable cohort — the same house and tenure bracket — and the percentiles are averaged with equal weight. The formula is public and unweighted by us on purpose: we do not assign subjective importance to any metric.

• Ministers and presiding officers are exempt from questions/debates by parliamentary convention, so those metrics are excluded for them rather than counted as zero.
• Declared assets and criminal cases are shown as neutral factual context and are not scored.
• Where data is missing, we show “unavailable” — never a zero.

Public Sentiment

Ratings (1–5) are collected without login. To keep thin or coordinated samples from distorting the picture we apply Bayesian shrinkage: a rating with few votes stays near the neutral mean until enough independent votes accumulate. We display the full distribution, the vote count, and a confidence indicator so you can judge for yourself.

Vote integrity is layered: a Cloudflare Turnstile human-check, a soft device signal, and rate limiting on a hashed, coarsened IP, with one updatable vote per person. No login-less system is perfect; a determined attacker can still get through, which is exactly why sentiment is kept separate from the verified measure and labelled as opinion.

Sources

“No citation, no claim.” Identity and cross-references come from Wikidata; declared assets, education and criminal cases from Election Commission affidavits; parliamentary activity from official Sansad / PRS records. Every fact links to its source and shows the date it was retrieved.

Corrections

We offer a right to reply and a correction process. If a fact is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will review it. Our code and data are intended to be open source.