Calgary Council Values

Methodology

Scoring & Transparency

Calgary Council Values compares reviewed public voting records against the civic priorities selected by the user.

The platform does not evaluate campaign promises, interviews, speeches, endorsements, party affiliation, or social media messaging.

The system evaluates public voting behaviour.

Weighted civic priorities

Users rank Calgary's 7 civic domains based on personal importance.

Those rankings become weighted inputs within the scoring system.

Votes connected to higher-priority domains contribute more strongly to the final alignment calculation than lower-priority domains.

Score confidence levels

Public scores are displayed using confidence tiers based on reviewed matched vote history.

Verified Score

15+ reviewed matched votes

The sample is large enough to support a public ranking with reasonable confidence.

Preliminary Signal

5–14 reviewed matched votes

A score is shown but marked as early-stage. The direction may shift as more votes are reviewed.

Insufficient Data

Fewer than 5 reviewed matched votes

No score is generated. The councillor appears on the page but is not ranked.

Preliminary signals are visible for transparency, but may shift as additional public voting records are reviewed over time.

Receipts-first transparency

Every score should eventually connect back to:

  • the original motion
  • the meeting date
  • the councillor vote
  • the domain classification
  • the directional classification
  • the confidence tier

If a score cannot be explained publicly, it should not exist.

The score is not the product.

The receipts are.

Current limitations

The platform only evaluates reviewed public voting records currently available in the dataset.

Some domains currently contain fewer reviewed votes than others.

For example, Education-related municipal votes are presently underrepresented because municipalities have more limited authority in that area compared to provincial governments.

As additional council voting records are reviewed over time, score confidence and domain coverage continue improving.