Tynwald Approval Ratings Results

[Declan]

- Thank you to those who completed the Tynwald Approval Ratings Poll that was posted on This Thread

 

Essentially people were asked whether they Approved, Disapproved or had No Opinion about each member of Tynwald. This gives figures like this -

 

Approve 54%

Disapprove 40%

No Opinion 6%

 

(the above is Obama's ratings in America last week)

 

Now if you take the percentage of people who disapproved of a person from the percentage who approved you get their popularity ratings so Ombama would have a score of 14%. So here is the Top Approval Ratings for Tynwald Members -

 

1 Phil Gawne 30.91%

2 Allan Bell 19.09%

3 Dudley Butt 19.00%

4 Noel Cringle 15.00%

5 Peter Karran 13.00%

6 Steve Rodan 10.89%

7 Juan Watterson 10.78%

8 David Callister 9.09%

9 John Shimmin 0.00%

10 Anne Craine -0.91%

[Declan]

And here are the 10 worst ...

1 Martyn Quayle -82.52%

2 John Houghton -50.98%

3 David Anderson -36.70%

4 Tony Brown -36.29%

5 Bishop Robert Paterson -36.08%

6 Phil Braidwood -30.39%

7 Bill Malarkey -29.41%

8 Adrian Earnshaw -27.52%

9 David Quirk -27.45%

10 Alex Downie -23.00%

[alibaba]

Heh, I hope you're planning on sending the results to the MHKs themselves.

[bluemonday]

Thanks for the work put in Declan, interesting results.

[KMC]

Very interesting reading, and how many MF members took part ??

[KMC]

Heh, I hope you're planning on sending the results to the MHKs themselves.

 

Will they know already - as in how many do you think are active or lurking members on here already ??

[Declan]

Based on the number of respondents who said they Approved of how these people were doing their job...

 

Top 10 Most Approved

1 Allan Bell 54.55%

2 Peter Karran 51.00%

3 Phil Gawne 50.91%

4 Dudley Butt 40.00%

5 Juan Watterson 39.22%

6 Noel Cringle 39.00%

7 Anne Craine 38.18%

8 Eddie Teare 37.27%

9 John Shimmin 37.27%

10 Steve Rodan 35.64%

 

And the 10 Least Approved

 

1 Martyn Quayle 1.94%

2 David Quirk 10.78%

3 Alan Crowe 10.89%

4 Bishop Robert Paterson 11.34%

5 Phil Braidwood 12.75%

6 Tim Crookall 13.59%

7 John Houghton 14.71%

8 Alex Downie 15.00%

9 Graham Creegan 17.82%

10 George Waft 18.18%

 

and how many MF members took part ??

 

There were about 120, but not everyone expressed an opinion (or even No Opinion on every person), but it's about 100 for everybody.

[Declan]

Heh, I hope you're planning on sending the results to the MHKs themselves.

 

Will they know already - as in how many do you think are active or lurking members on here already ??

 

Well I didn't know Martyn Quayle AND his mother were members!

[Terse]

From the results, I can't help wondering whether the likes of Noel Cringle and Anne Craine are not only members but also have a HUGE number of sock puppets!

[Declan]

Top 10 Most Disapproved

1 Martyn Quayle 84.47%

2 John Houghton 65.69%

3 Tony Brown 58.87%

4 David Anderson 55.96%

5 Bill Malarkey 49.02%

6 Adrian Earnshaw 47.71%

7 Bishop Robert Paterson 47.42%

8 Eddie Teare 43.64%

9 Phil Braidwood 43.14%

10 Bill Henderson 43.00%

 

And the Least Disapproved

 

1 Phil Gawne 20.00%

2 Dudley Butt 21.00%

3 David Callister 23.23%

4 Noel Cringle 24.00%

5 Steve Rodan 24.75%

6 Alan Crowe 26.73%

7 Juan Watterson 28.43%

8 George Waft 30.30%

9 Tim Crookall 33.98%

10 Allan Bell 35.45%

[queenie]

Interesting results! Who were the most invisible - no opinion?

[Declan]

Now it may seem from the last post it may seem like like Alan Crowe, George Waft, and Tim Crookall are popular, but the reason they are so high on the least disapproved list is...

 

The Ten Grey Men

1 Alan Crowe 62.38%

2 Tim Crookall 52.43%

3 George Waft 51.52%

4 David Quirk 50.98%

5 Alex Downie 47.00%

6 David Callister 44.44%

7 Phil Braidwood 44.12%

8 Graham Creegan 41.58%

9 Geoff Corkish 41.58%

10 Bishop Robert Paterson 41.24%

 

The 10 That Generate Most Opinions

 

1 Allan Bell 10.00%

2 Peter Karran 11.00%

3 Martyn Quayle 13.59%

4 Tony Brown 18.55%

5 Eddie Teare 19.09%

6 John Houghton 19.61%

7 Anne Craine 22.73%

8 Juan Turner 24.75%

9 David Anderson 24.77%

10 John Shimmin 25.45%

 

Based on the No Opinion question.

[Lost Login]

Interesting results! Who were the most invisible - no opinion?

 

I am surprised that many replied and had an opinion about how well many of them are doing their jobs as away from a few headlines do we really have a clue how well many of them doing their day to day work as a constituency MHK or an MLC. I certainly have no idea. Even as Ministers running there day to day departments I have no idea.

 

Even of the two that were opposite ends of the spectrum do we have much idea of how much in their departments is down to them and how much is down to officials as for years under succesive ministers Treasury has appeared to be well run whilst Tourism & Leisure has appeared to be shambolic. How much of the complaints against what T&L have proposed are a results of Treasury not providing the funds?

 

I also find in interesting that the the one with the best rating is the Minister whose department saw a bank go under at a potential high cost to Island Tax Payers and some Island Businesses. I wonder if he would have had the same approval rating if the bank that went bang was a bank that many local residents had money in.

 

Equally the T&L minister is presently unpopular but would he be so unpopular if the issue of free pensioners travel and TT entertainment had been different.

 

It seems to be that a few high profile decisions making up a minority of your workload is what you are judged on it does not take a load for people to judge you.

Again talking of the two with the best and worst ratings,

[nipper]

What about

 

Brenda Cannell MHK

David Cannan MHK

David Cretney MHK

Claire Christian MLC

Eddie Lowey MLC

and

Lord Bishop

Attorney General

[queenie]

Good point LL, I suppose a lot of my opinions were based on what I read/heard in local media, I genuinely couldn't place some of the MHKs who I gave a no opinion on. They may well be working away quietly and diligently in the background.