Post in Sub-constituency election results for the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections - data published

May 01 14:50 UTC

Group Members concerned about public access to public data may be interested to
see this News Release (below) from the Scotland
Office about the publication of the voting data from the 2007 Scottish
Parliament elections.  So far as I am aware, this is the
first time data at Polling District level have been published for any public
elections in the UK.  This has been made possible only
because the votes were counted electronically:  paper ballot papers scanned,
images interpreted to votes, vote numbers counted.

The question of publishing the ballot data (STV preferences) from the 2007
Scottish Local Government elections remains outstanding.
Perhaps the Scottish Government will now be encouraged to go ahead with full
publication.  The City of Glasgow Council published the
full STV ballot data for their 21 wards on their website on the day of the
counts (4 May 2007), but they are the only Council that
has done that.

James

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Scotland Office	30 April 2008
Sub-constituency election results for the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections -
data
http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/our-communications/documents.php?doctype=pubs

The May 2007 Scottish Parliament elections were counted electronically which
meant that, for the first time, it has been possible to
hold information on results at a sub-constituency level. The Minister of State
for Scotland has agreed to the release of these data
which are provided below as the following Excel tables.

1. Lookup table for cross-referencing between polling stations, constituency
and polling place.
2. Aggregation list showing which polling stations have been combined
3. Table of constituency election results at polling station level (by
constituency)
4. Table of regional election results at polling station level (by
constituency)
5. Table of cross-tabulated elections results, i.e. across constituency and
regional contests, by constituency. This table compares
voters' choice of constituency candidate to their choice of regional candidate
or party

Please also read the separate commentary for full explanation of the data
published here (Word doc, 34 KB):
http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/uploads/Commentary%20-%20%20data%20released%20on%2030%20April%202008%20(2).doc

If you have a query about release of these data, please contact Sheila Scobie
[<email obscured>].

Open Data to be released 30 April 2008.xls  (Excel file, 2 MB)
http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/uploads/Data%20to%20be%20released%2030%20April%202008.xls