Your Political Compass · PUBLIC GUIDE
A clear method. Honest limits.
Your political preferences can pull in more than one direction. Explore a set of balanced statements, inspect a multidimensional profile, and compare policy positions in a supported election dataset. You choose which questions to answer and which issues matter.
A profile of expressed answers
The general questionnaire covers economics, civil liberties, institutions, social policy, the environment, and international affairs. Agreement is mapped to a normalized scale using each question’s published direction. Neutral is a substantive midpoint; unsure and skipped are missing answers. National left/right labels differ, so no country is inferred from your network or browser.
Coverage matters
A dimension with few answers is less informative. The interface reports both the position and the answer coverage. The two-dimensional graphic illustrates only the first two dimensions; inspect the full table before drawing a conclusion. General-mode issue importance is kept in your notes and does not secretly change the scoring formula.
Election distance and missing evidence
Election matching uses normalized policy positions from −2 to +2 and weights from zero to five. For shared known positions, absolute policy distance is weighted and normalized against the maximum distance of four. Similarity is 100 × (1 − weighted distance / maximum weighted distance). Unknown candidate positions and unanswered user issues are excluded, never counted as agreement.
Eligibility, ties, and limitations
An option needs at least 60% matched evidence coverage before a rank is shown. Coverage is separate from similarity. Equal scores are ties; identical inputs produce the same output. Change issue weights to inspect sensitivity. A policy match does not measure integrity, feasibility, governing skill, strategic voting, or everything that matters to a voter. Historical election data is labeled and does not imply current ballot access.
Guide reviewed 2026-10-27. Dataset dates appear beside the content. Report a correction.
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