diff --git a/app/models/legislation/proposal.rb b/app/models/legislation/proposal.rb
index 5ced1529d..32badbb46 100644
--- a/app/models/legislation/proposal.rb
+++ b/app/models/legislation/proposal.rb
@@ -80,10 +80,18 @@ class Legislation::Proposal < ActiveRecord::Base
     /\A#{Setting["proposal_code_prefix"]}-\d\d\d\d-\d\d-(\d*)\z/.match(terms)
   end
 
-  def total_votes
+  def likes
     cached_votes_up
   end
 
+  def dislikes
+    cached_votes_down
+  end
+
+  def total_votes
+    cached_votes_total
+  end
+
   def voters
     User.active.where(id: votes_for.voters)
   end
diff --git a/db/migrate/20171025142440_add_cached_votes_to_legislation_proposals.rb b/db/migrate/20171025142440_add_cached_votes_to_legislation_proposals.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..92544ddb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20171025142440_add_cached_votes_to_legislation_proposals.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+class AddCachedVotesToLegislationProposals < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def change
+    add_column :legislation_proposals, :cached_votes_total, :integer, default: 0
+    add_column :legislation_proposals, :cached_votes_down, :integer, default: 0
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema.rb b/db/schema.rb
index f8dd19c13..05faf6f36 100644
--- a/db/schema.rb
+++ b/db/schema.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20171020163240) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20171025142440) do
 
   # These are extensions that must be enabled in order to support this database
   enable_extension "plpgsql"
@@ -528,6 +528,8 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20171020163240) do
     t.integer  "community_id"
     t.datetime "created_at",                                    null: false
     t.datetime "updated_at",                                    null: false
+    t.integer  "cached_votes_total",                default: 0
+    t.integer  "cached_votes_down",                 default: 0
   end
 
   add_index "legislation_proposals", ["legislation_process_id"], name: "index_legislation_proposals_on_legislation_process_id", using: :btree