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In the United Kingdom, general elections occur at least every five years. About 650 constituencies return a member of Parliament. Prior to 1945, electoral competition in the United Kingdom exhibited features which make meaningful comparisons with modern results difficult.
- How Are General Election Results collected?
- What Data Does The House of Commons Library use?
- What Is and Isn’T in Our Data?
- Publishing Election Results
When the polls close on election nights, counting officers in local authorities oversee the tallying of results. At the end of the night, or sometimes a little later, the returning officer declares the winner. Usually, the result, including the number of votes cast for all the candidates, is then added to the website of the local council organising...
A team in the House of Commons Library checks council websites to collect a consistent and authoritative dataset of votes in each constituency at the general election. Because there is no requirement for councils to publish election results in a particular format, there is substantial variation in which data is included and how it is presented, inc...
Our dataset is based on the information we receive fromreturning officers shortly after an election. However, returning officers sometimesneed to correct the results they initially publish. As there is no centralsystem for collating election results, we are not always aware of those changes.They therefore don’t always make it into our dataset immed...
As there is no central resource for UK election results, organisations including the Electoral Commission and the House of Commons Library have so far published one datafile for each election. Academics have made efforts to combine election results from different general elections into coherent datasets, but these typically only cover up to 50-year...
Apr 17, 2020 · This dataset presents UK general election results by constituency from 1918 onwards. It draws on several sources, described below, which may contain errors. For each constituency, the dataset includes the number of votes and vote share for different political parties, as well as the electorate and turnout.
- Philip Loft, Elise Uberoi, Edward Hicks
- 2019
May 6, 2010 · Election results for the UK Parliament from 2010 to 2019. Compiled and made available under an Open Parliament Licence by the House of Commons Library . Coverage - Roadmap - Contact - Datasette endpoint - Database schema
As well as general election data, the site includes tables for: Members - candidacies of former and current MPs at general elections since 2010. Parties - performance of registered parties standing in these elections. Constituencies - results by constituency since 2010.
There have been 57 general elections held in the UK up to and including the December 2019 election.
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Previous general elections in the UK. The 2024 general election will take place on Thursday 4 July 2024. Here are some answers to frequently asked questions about previous general elections and links to impartial summaries and analysis of past election results.
