Singapore Members of Parliament’s Absentee Record

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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