Who’s making their local election data open?
You may have read about our collaboration with LGA and OpenlyLocal to encourage councils to publish local election results in open data format on their websites. This blogpost celebrates the pioneering councils who've already achieved this .....
The Open Elections Data Project is an initiative by OpenlyLocal supported by Socitm and the LGA to encourage councils to publish the results of the local elections as open data.
This blogpost to celebrates the pioneering councils who've already achieved this, and we expect to be adding many more names over the coming days and weeks.
The project isn't just about results from these elections now, by the way, so even if you didn't have elections this time, please do join in - you'll see from the list below that Trafford have made all their results since 1998 open.
If you aren't aware of the project, essentially what we are trying to do is get councils publishing their election results on their website 'marked up' in a particular way so that the results can be 'machine-read' and therefore easily reaped from websites and re-used. One obvious re-use is compiling a national database of results - something that is otherwise a painstaking and laborious task involving lots of cutting and pasting, and consequently is not freely available at the moment.
- Lichfield District Council
- Trafford District Council (All election results since 1998!)
- Eden District Council
- Gosport Borough Council
- Lincoln City Council
- Wyre Borough Council
- London Borough of Redbridge
- London Borough of Barnet
- London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
- Cheltenham
- Portsmouth City Council
- East Staffordshire
- South Cambridgeshire
- Coventry