Lesson from Survey of elections May 2010 - PDF version

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Lessons from survey of elections May 2010 reports on a series of surveys carried out by members of the Better connected team to assess the quality of online coverage of this year's general and local elections. Forty-two council websites were involved in these surveys.

Executive Summary

Overall, the surveys highlighted some excellent practice by individual councils, but also examples of where information was patchy, hard to find, out of date, or just missing. Visits to all council websites increased during the election period, with of councils holding local elections increasing more than those that did not.

Content of the report

Section 1 Context

• Approach to survey
• Impact on website traffic

Section 2 Coverage of local elections

• Round 1: registering to vote (10 April)
• Round 2: finding out about the candidates (4 May)
• Round 3: communicating the results (7 May)
• Round 4: Google survey
• Lessons from analysis

Section 3 A local perspective on the General Election

• Finding information to inform voter choice
• Finding your constituency
• Local websites and 'how to vote' information
• Beyond council websites

Section 4 Publishing election information as 'open' data
Appendix 1 List of council websites surveyed
Appendix 2 Questionnaire for survey (Rounds 1 to 4)

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