1. Choose the election context
This only changes the default party list. You can still switch parties on or off manually. Westminster options include national parties where they field Westminster candidates : the SNP and Plaid Cymru are options here, but some Northern Irish parties are not.
Customise parties
Major UK and regional parties are available here. Northern Ireland parties are included only for the Northern Ireland context by default, but you can include them elsewhere manually.
2. Estimate the Policies score
Use a policy matcher for a rough numerical anchor. If a quiz gives 74 %, enter 7.4 for that party’s Policies score. Then adjust if you think the quiz missed something important.
3. Set parameter importance
Set importance to zero to ignore a parameter, or ten to maximise its importance. In the next panel you can set how much you agree with each party on the different parameters.
4. Score each party
Scores run from 0 to 10. A score of 1 is the neutral lower value used by the weighting formula; a score of 0 means “absolutely not”, provided the parameter matters to you.
5. Compare results
The "raw score" is in arbitrary units and basically means sod all. It's much more useful to compare the relative rankings of each party.
No scores yet
Add at least one party to see a result.
| Rank | Party | Raw score | % of maximum | % of leader |
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Bar chart
Scale: percentage of the theoretical maximum possible score under your current importance settings.
6. Method and parameter descriptions
These are deliberately subjective. The point is to make your subjective judgement explicit enough to inspect it.
7. Output a summary
Generate a local text summary you can copy, print, or download. Nothing is uploaded or stored.
Summary controls
Use this to keep a snapshot of the calculation without saving anything in the browser.
- The downloaded text file is created locally.
- Exported JSON can be re-imported into this page later.
- There is no automatic browser storage.