2016 Elections Analysis
A general sentiment comparison of the 500-word candidate manifestos from the Vote.je website for the States of Jersey 2016 General Elections, calculated using IBM's Watson Natural Language Understanding linguistic analysis tools.
The average sentiment across all candidate manifestos is 0.22 (positive).
Comparison tables can be sorted by clicking the appropriate column heading.
"Sentiment analysis is the process of computationally identifying and categorising opinions expressed in a piece of text, especially in order to determine whether the writer's attitude towards a particular topic, product, etc. is positive, negative, or neutral." [Google]
Senator Manifestos : Sentiment
| Name | Manifesto | Sentiment |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah Ferguson | Vote.je | -0.03 |
| Sam Mézec | Vote.je | -0.04 |
| Christian May | Vote.je | 0.80 |
| John Young | Vote.je | 0.15 |
| Hugh Raymond | Vote.je | 0.53 |
| Guy de Faye | Vote.je | 0.21 |
| Mary O’Keeffe | Vote.je | 0.53 |
| Nick Le Cornu | Vote.je | -0.06 |
| Alvin Aaron | Vote.je | 0.04 |
| Mike Dun | Vote.je | 0.05 |
| Stevie Ocean | Vote.je | 0.28 |