Oireachtas Vote

Interactive voting dashboard for TDs in Dail Eireann, built as a static React + Vite app and deployed to GitHub Pages.

Live site: https://robmcelhinney.github.io/OireachtasVote/

What It Does

• Browse current and historic Dail sessions.
• Filter and sort TD voting records in a modern data table.
• Switch between Input and Slider range filtering for Percent and Votes.
• Explore constituencies on an SVG map of Ireland.
• Click Dublin to open the Dublin-specific inset map for finer constituency selection.

Data Source

Data is collected from the official Oireachtas Open Data API:

• https://data.oireachtas.ie/

The Python scripts generate static JSON used by the frontend, so no backend database is required.

Tech Stack

• React
• React Router
• Vite
• GitHub Pages (static deploy)

Project Structure

• src/info.json, src/members.json: current Dail snapshot used by the homepage.
• src/data/*info.json, src/data/*members.json: historical Dail session data.
• src/constituencies/33.json: constituency SVG paths (includes Dublin detail map geometry).
• python/OireachtasVoting.py: current-session data builder.
• python/OireachtasVotingHistory.py: historical data builder.

Getting Started

git clone git@github.com:robmcelhinney/OireachtasVote.git
cd OireachtasVote
npm install

Development

Run the app locally with Vite:

npm run dev

Build And Preview

npm run build
npm run preview

Deploy (GitHub Pages)

npm run deploy

This runs predeploy (npm run build) and publishes dist/ to GitHub Pages.

Refreshing The Data

Generate/update JSON from the Oireachtas API:

python3 python/OireachtasVoting.py
python3 python/OireachtasVotingHistory.py

Then run a fresh build:

npm run build

Notes

• This project is static-first by design: fast to host, simple to maintain, no runtime server dependency.
• If you update generated JSON, commit those files so the deployed site reflects the latest dataset.