[cvn-developers] Re: [mySociety:public] Local elections

[Seb Bacon]

Hi Chris,

It strikes me that this could be a worthwhile Democracy Club volunteer
task -- petition your local council to publish their election data in
a standard format....

Seb

(moved to Demo Club mailing list)

On 12 May 2010 22:14, CountCulture <countc...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> At the moment we're concentrating on collecting the info - lots of
> hand-holding with the local authorities to help them publish the results as
> open data, but as soon as the dust settles will have lots of ways of
> accessing it.
> Chris
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> On 12 May 2010, at 21:55, Abdul Hai <ahai11...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the stuff but I was confused when I saw it first as it seems to
> be done ward by ward. Wouldn't it be better to do it council by council like
> the BBC as most people would understand that rather then ward by ward thing?
> It took me a few minutes to figure that one out after I saw the information
> by clicking on one of the links.
>
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> Sent: Wed, 12 May, 2010 21:46:50
> Subject: Re: [mySociety:public] Local elections
>
> We're collating local election results published as part of the Open
> Election Data project (http://openelectiondata.org - feel free to contact
> your council and ask them to take part) - will prob have somewhere between
> 20 & 35 councils in the end. You can see what we've got so far at
> http://openlylocal.com/polls.
>
> Chris
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> On 12 May 2010, at 21:34, Abdul Hai <ahai11...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> It seems that in all the excitement that local election results have been
> overlooked. This is the BBC version of it which includes council by council.
> It includes losses and gains but no details about the elected councilors
> though.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/election2010/council/html/region_99999.stm
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