Edmonton Council Voting Records for Motions, 2013-2017

2013-2017 voting records for motions at Edmonton City Council and selected committee meetings. The data likely contains votes cast by individual councillors, recorded as 'in favour', 'opposed', or 'absent'. It is provided by data.edmonton.ca and was last updated in May 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyzing individual councillor voting behavior using the VOTER and VOTE columns.
• Tracking the frequency and outcome of motions across meetings using MOTION_ID and MEETING_ID.
• Identifying agenda items with associated votes using ITEM_ID and VOTE.
• Modeling voting coalitions by linking VOTER and VOTE across multiple MOTION_ID entries.

Strengths

• Covers a five-year time range from 2013 to 2017.
• Provides a structured record of votes per motion with 5 distinct columns.
• Data is available in multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, JSON, XML, RDF).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2022 -05-03 16:36:34; freshness should be verified.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

data.edmonton.ca

Collection Method

Official record of Council and Committee meetings, as noted in the description.

Time Range

2013-2017

Freshness

Last updated 2022-05-03 16:36:34.

Geography

Likely Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, based on the source domain.