Voters can now check which party best reflects their views on policy by taking a five minute online quiz.
The impartial voting advice application was produced by political scientists at Queen Mary University of London.
Central to the app is a series of questions on the Union, taxation, Europe, the Economy, crime, and the environment. Upon completing the quiz, voters are matched to the party which best reflects their views on policy.
The university has created a custom version of the quiz for HeraldScotland which you can try right here:
The party positions were determined over multiple rounds of coding by a team of political scientists on the basis of various sources of information (including party programmes, interviews with candidates and party leaders, politicians speeches, and opinions of outside experts). Altogether seven parties were coded in Great Britain: the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Ukip, the Green Party, SNP and Plaid Cymru.
According to Dr Mario Mendez, senior lecturer at QMUL's School of Law, "Simplicity in terms of how the app is designed is critical".
He continued: "It's been designed so that people can breeze through quite a lot of content in less than 10 minutes. Similarly the tone was important - we knew that policy questions can become overly complex and prohibitive, but equally we were determined not to dumb down important questions or condescend to voters. The result is, we hope, an effective balance of simplicity and policy detail."
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