Singapore Members of Parliament’s Absentee Record

Time to mark attendance!

Time to mark attendance!

Are you getting your money worth from your elected Member of Parliament?

Someone called David Chua has created a simple script to scrap data from Singapore Parliament’s proceeding reports. This script helps to track MP’s absentee records and outputs the result into a sqlite3 database.

You can find out more HERE and HERE.

This is the list of the top absentees as of 13 August 2012:

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Absentees on Last Parliament Sitting:  13/08/2012
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Mr Charles Chong of Joo Chiat
Mr Christopher De Souza of Holland-bukit Timah
Mr Mah Bow Tan of Tampines
Mr Seah Kian Peng of Marine Parade
Dr Teo Ho Pin of Bukit Panjang

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Stats
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Top 5 absent MPs:
Mr Lee Kuan Yew with 17
Mr Mah Bow Tan with 14
Associate Professor Dr Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim with 8
Dr Teo Ho Pin with 8
Mr Raymond Lim Siang Keat with 7

Top 5 wards with highest number of absentees:
Tanjong Pagar with 29
Tampines with 28
East Coast with 22
West Coast with 15
Nee Soon with 12
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