Say vs. do
What they post about isn't what they vote on.
We sorted councillors' social posts into the same policy topics as their votes. The result: a gap between the issues they spotlight publicly and the issues they actually spend their votes on. Posting about a topic isn't a position — so we just show what they highlight, next to their record on it.
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Posts classified
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Councillors
Climate,
Most over-spotlighted
Housing
Most under-spotlighted
The spotlight gap
Talked about vs. voted on.
Each topic's share of councillors' posts vs its share of the council's substantive votes. Parks, climate and community events get the megaphone; housing, the budget and governance — the bulk of the actual work — get far less airtime.
By councillor
What each one highlights — and how they vote on it.
Tap a councillor for the topics they post about most, paired with their yes-rate on those same issues (and the contested-vote split, where it diverges).
A note on the data
Posts are councillors' own public social-media messages, sorted into policy topics by keyword (the same topics as the votes); off-topic posts ("great to be at the street festival") don't count. Posts skew recent and are capped per councillor, so this measures emphasis, not volume.
Crucially, spotlighting a topic says nothing about which side a councillor is on — that's why we show it beside their actual yes-rate rather than calling anyone a hypocrite. The judgment is yours.