All posts in the topic Sub-constituency election results for the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections - data published (Short link)
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 +++++++++++ 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 []. 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
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