Election Results 41% open (avg.)

First data on candidates etc. is available before election. During the election night results are made public with an estimated ten minutes delay, but not on the lowest geographical level. Full results are available when officially checked the day after the election. Historical data and data from other local elections, regional elections and referendums are available in the same manner.

Most recent data is from 2014.

The repository of election data is available since 1945. There is no license available on the website. An introductory text explains that data can be freely used by researchers and citizens but no reference is made to open data. Also on the Open Data Catalogue (http://dados.gov.br/dataset/resultado-das-eleicoes/resource/bfd28046-7236-4a4a-82ef-3e0fcd92771c) no license is specified. Data is not timely on the Open Data Catalogue but on the primary source (website of Tribunal Superior Eleitoral).

2015 - The result can be exported to CSV from the commission's website.

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About Openly licensed, in Brazil there are no explicit licence for governamental products, is rare and there are no tradition about this kindo of notice in a document. The link illustrates the inferred licence of law-documents, and similar inference must be done for elections datasets.

All the main elections results since 1999 are now available in open data at the polling station level (Bureaux de vote):

Élections présidentielles : données 2002, données 2007 (available on Monday 09/28), données 2012

Élections législatives : données 2002, données 2007, données 2012

Élections européennes : données 1999, données 2004, données 2009, données 2014

Élections municipales : données 2001 (available on Monday 09/28), données 2008 (communes de plus de 3500 habitants), données 2014

Élections régionales : données 2004, données 2010

Élections départementales : données 2005

Élections cantonales : données 2001, données 2004, données 2008 (available on Monday 09/28), données 2011

Référendum : données 2000, données 2005

Revision: changed the url to point to an actual list of all corresponding elections datasets, instead of all of the Ministère de l'Intérieur's datasets which include many unrelated ones.

Además, en el portal principal de la Registraduria Nacional del Estado Civil, está publicada la información con los resultados de la Presidencia y Congreso del último periodo de elecciones en Colombia. En el siguiente link puede encontrar la información:

http://www.registraduria.gov.co/-Historico-de-Resultados-.html

Por otra parte, se publica información de resultados electorales en la plataforma de la Misión de Observación Electoral –MOE: http://www.datoselectorales.org/#, ver sección "Resultados electorales".

Con el fin de aclarar, la MOE es una plataforma de organizaciones de la sociedad civil, independiente del gobierno, de los partidos políticos y de intereses privados, que promueve la realización del derecho que tiene todo ciudadano a participar en la conformación, ejercicio y control del poder político.

Detailed data in XML format available from the Swedish Election Authority. Edit: If one drills down through the pages, one can find XML and Excel files detailing the results. Eg. the following page is of the previous (2010) general elections' results in data files http://www.val.se/val/val2010/statistik/index.html

http://www.val.se/tidigare_val/ (actually up to date, considering the date of the last election)

Data only became openly licenced on the 1st of February 2012 because it was the first disclosure date of political donations after Creative Commons Attribution became the default licence of PSI for the Commonwealth of Australia. This led to statement informing users that all other data from the electoral commission being licenced openly: http://www.aec.gov.au/footer/copyright.htm Otherwise, machine readable data (CSV overviews and XML for finest granularity) is provided minute-by-minute on election dates for media organisations to use in their reporting and now this access is provided to citizens.

There are no changes from 2015

This data is well structured and easy to access. That Were data sets are cleaned and sorted. The last update of the PASO elections are in 2015, the datasets is in csv format. Are the results of the elections of 2001 - 2011 in PDF format. http://elecciones.gob.ar/articulo_sub_sub.php?secc=2&sub_secc=9&sub_sub_secc=9

National election results are available as open data through the portal Eligendo. Following the amendments to the Code of eGovernment in Italy, where there is no any information about the license of one of the public service, the content is released into the open data. The default license is CC-by 4.0 (this is defined in the National Guidelines released by Agid - The Digital Agency of Italy)

The Romanian Permanent Electoral Authority set up a portal where the results of the elections can be retrieved in XLS format. Usually, the results are published immediately after their validation by the Constitutional Court. Only the results of the more recent elections (after 2004) are available in re-usable format. Although the data is not explicitly licensed on their website, the datasets with the most recent elections (2009+) are also available on the Government's Open Data Portal - http://data.gov.ro/organization/autoritatea-electorala-permanenta - thus the positive answer to the specific question.

The data can be downloaded for each scrutiny from separate pages. The Authority also set up a page where all data is available, including online viewers, at http://alegeri.roaep.ro/, but it is working intermittently.

Data is available for various election - nationwide, municipial, local etc.

The Ministry of Interior releases federal election data broken down to district level. The data is published on the government's open data portal, http://data.gv.at under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY).

The dataset for the 2013 parliamentary elections is available as a CSV file, https://www.data.gv.at/datensatz/?id=09716341-2bea-4298-9525-e936d8247d19.

The Austrian results of the 2014 elections of the European Parliament are available in XLSX, CSV and HTML format, https://www.data.gv.at/datensatz/?id=2b10a91b-51d5-4e34-b992-8fd3a3121f0d.

Precinct-level election data is only released by the City of Vienna and not available in the other eight regions of Austria.

The dataset matches all the evaluation criteria. Bulk download of all information can only be requested by email (see footer of website). The terms and conditions refers to the 37/2007 law which could be considered an open license.

Did not find any link which allowed users to download the data freely, however, it is available in HTML format.

Existen datos de Elecciones Generales para los años 2013, 2008 y 2003, Elecciones Municipales para los años 2001 y 2006.

Contenido: Los datos no están completos, existen columnas en los archivos CSV que no tienen valor, necesita un nivel de especifidad mayor, se puede obtener cantidad de votos por; departamento, distrito y local de votación para los diferentes cargos, pero no se especifica cantidad de votos por mesas.

La certificados de votación (Elecciones Generales) para el año 2013 están disponibles en http://tsje.gov.py/e2013/trep/consulta-certificados.html (accedido 29/Agosto/2014). Se puede obtener por departamento, distrito, zona, local y mesa, estos certificados están en formato JPG, también existe una tabla HTML que refleja los datos que aparecen en los mismos. Se especifica votos obtenidos por lista, votos nulos y votos en blanco. Ofrece opción de descargar certificado en formato PDF.

Elecciones Municipales para los años 1996 y 2010, están disponibles en http://tsje.gov.py/elecciones-municipales.html (accedido 29/Agosto/2014). Para el año 2010 se puede descargar; Intendentes Electos por departamento y distrito, en formato XLS. Para el año 1996 existe formato JPG.

Elecciones Generales para los años 2000 y 1998 están disponibles en http://tsje.gov.py/elecciones-generales.html (accedido 29/Agosto/2014), año 2000 en formato HTML y año 1998 en formato JPG.

Estructura: Los datos que existen en formato CSV, no tienen metadatos, lo que hace difícil la comprensión de los mismos. Existen columnas que se pueden eliminar, ya que pueden ser calculadas en base a los datos y cabeceras que no son necesarias. Existen muchos datos en formato PDF, JPG, PNG y HTML en http://tsje.gov.py/ (accedido 29/Agosto/2014).

According to Juan, did not changed from last year.

The submission is correct.

independent http://iomelections.com/ maintained by a techy at a local data hosting company

Election data is published by the High Election Commission. Older election results are available in separate subdomains accessible from a dropdown list on the upper left hand corner of the website. All data is licensed under restrictive terms (data belongs to the High Election Commission).

Results are disaggregated only at the national level and for provinces, not for smaller areas like cantons or districts. No license found on site.

The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) is the highest authority in electoral matters. Elections are intended to elect the President and Vice-President, Members of Congress, Municipal Corporations throughout the Republic, deputies to the Central American Parliament and alternates. The Guatemala Electoral Commission publishes an authoritative collection of electoral results. The Electoral Commission makes the bulk data available for download in PDF and Excel spreadsheet formats.

Some of the published results are in pdf format and others in excel. But the court of appeal said that when requested, excel format data can be given.

Lots of information beyond votes published (including campaign financing, government programmes, and more): http://www.corteelectoral.gub.uy/gxpsites/page.aspx?3,26,453,O,S,0,

This URL correspond to national elections, but the site has information for local, ballotagge and other.

Election results are available for LegCo under the 3 headings of: Geographical constituencies, District/Functional constituencies and Functional constituencies. Results are displayed in HTML tables, separated over many pages, one for each constituency. Oddly, results seem to be given as total number of votes received for a block of candidates and then indication of which single candidate from that block was elected - rather than breakdown of votes per candidate.

Data of Election result is available at http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/ElectionStatistics.aspx; Detailed Results of latest elections are available in xls format i.e http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/candidatewise/LS-2014_ElectionResult.xlsx and http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/GE2014/Party_Contested_GE_2014.xlsx Real time Election Result is available also when actual election is going on and can be accessed through http://eciresults.nic.in/. API is also available for real time election result. Many web/mobile app has been developed using the API of http://eciresults.nic.in/. Data related to elections is also available on Data Portal. Details include- List of Participating Political Parties List of Successful Candidates Performance of Political Parties Candidate Data Summary Electors Data Summary Women Candidates Constituency Data Summary Detailed Results Data available on OGD India is completely free and open for reuse and further studies and research.

It doesn't have information about license or term of use.

http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/faces/HaberDetay?training_id=YSKPWCN1_4444005790&_afrLoop=2365240657220670&_afrWindowMode=0&_afrWindowId=12zs3opp84_37#%40%3F_afrWindowId%3D12zs3opp84_37%26_afrLoop%3D2365240657220670%26training_id%3DYSKPWCN1_4444005790%26_afrWindowMode%3D0%26_adf.ctrl-state%3D12zs3opp84_49

QA review- Changed the license to not open. Do not license in [this link] does not mention data, but mentions information about the elections process.1

The data is updated almost in real time as the election results are processed.

It is not available in bulk, but the information is in easily scrap-able htmls and sometimes available for download as CSV files.

The data was considered non-open as, although the Commission is working towards increasing the amount of machine-readable formats and the respect of interoperability, it does not clearly state what the reuse, modification and distribution conditions are (see here: http://results.cik.bg/pi2014/csv.html).

No explicit license is indicated, thus data is considered non-open.

The Central Election Commission publishes election results (for both general and EP elections). Each election instance, however, has its own web page and there is no central starting point where you could find all results together.

I was not sure if the dataset qualifies as machine-readable -- the situation varies in every case with most results available as HTML tables located on multiple web pages:

• 12th Saeima election (the most recent general election) results are published as XML: http://sv2014.cvk.lv/index_rez.html
• 2014 European Parliament election results are published as HTML tables only: http://ep2014.cvk.lv/index_rez.html
• 11th Saeima election results are published are published as HTML tables only: http://www.cvk.lv/cgi-bin/wdbcgiw/base/Saeima11.GalRez_s11
• the formats of earlier election results vary, but are either HTML tables (semi-machine-readable) or not machine-readable

See also:

• The State of Open Data in Latvia: 2014. Baltic J. Modern Computing, Vol. 2 (2014), No. 3, 160-170 - http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5052

Update (2015): the situation is the same as in 2014. There have been no new election since then.

All election and refernedum results are available at http://volby.statistics.sk/ The dataset meets all criteria, the only drawback being licensing - as usually in Slovakia, no license is given.

Up-to-date XLSX files of the European, federal and regional results for the elections of 2014. No license to be found, so not sure if openly licensed or available. The website http://polling2014.belgium.be/en/index.html contains all the info in tables, the one mentioned above has als the xlsx files that can even be downloaded in one zip file, so bulk applies.

Information can be used for non-commercial purposes with attribution, as per Liability and copyright.

In my experience, the electoral commission is one of the few South Africa entities that make such datasets so easily available for public use (and providing information that is machine readable). The standard licence is restrictive, only allowing for personal use.

This data is completely available in open format. Election Commission maintains the data.

Database is not on it's most detailed level. Vote counts basis are at a ballot level, not at a vote by vote detail. Not openly licensed because no license can be found, only copyright statement.

10/01/2014 - No change from 2013 in detail level. Changed web adress. Added XLS.

The elections are organised by the national electoral commission, that publish on his website the provisional results. After that, the results are transmitted to the constitutional council who validates and publishes the final results on their website. Even if the published result are in PDF, the reusable one can be requested for free at from the publisher. Even if there is no open license applied, the publisher answers us that the user can use it as he want.

Reviewers comments: Submission seems correct, have made only a single change: Noted 'machine readable' as 'No' instead of 'Unsure' since release format is pdf.

Data on parliamentary election results is available in detail as a PDF and in summary as PDF and HTML. Elections are dated from 2011. The new elections will be in the year 2016.

The results of elections in Aruba are available in a tabular format on the Government of Aruba's website for the years 2013, 2009 and 2005.

Based from the elections in 2013

Data is in pdf format and not machine readable.

The Central Election Commission is a governmental main body for committing elections in a country.

The www.vote.je site is the official source of the election results and was set up by the States Greffe.

The main (horizontal) menu on the www.vote.je site also provides access to the 2011 and 2013 results (though they do not provide quite as much detail e.g. spoiled papers)

There have been no major elections in 2015 as the parliament has moved to a 4-year term of office for all its elected members and there have been no by-elections at the time of submission.

Last elections were in 2012. That's why even though the data doesn't belong to this year, we can say it's current.

The web-site reports presidential and parliament elections results and do not those of local elections. The web-interface is interactive, though it's not easy to extract data in bulk.

If there is any machine-readable data available, I was not able to find it. The website is very confusing.

The general elections were done on September 11, 2014 and was won by the People's Democratic Movement.

QA notes: Data is in PDF, changed to not machine readable. I believe this is not in a poll station level.

The results of the legislative and presidential elections are available on the website of the independent national electoral commission. The data is in pdf format, and there is no evidence about the availability machine readable ones.

Information about the 2014 Municipal Elections (which were centrally administered) is available at http://results2014.cec.gov.ge/ with a nice interface and precinct level results as both HTML tables and scanned PDFs of the original documents. Results for past elections are displayed under the Archive section of the website (http://www.cesko.ge/en/arqivi-6), data for the historically important 2012 Parliamentary Elections is available at http://results2012.cec.gov.ge/.

Although precinct-level data is provided in HTML tables, API calls to the interactive portion of the website return Javascript / HTML snippets which are designed to be directly inserted into the website DOM, making them effectively not machine-readable without significant effort. This also means that the data is not available in bulk, because individual precinct results would need to be downloaded manually.

In addition, precinct level data is incomplete and not available upon request. Only district level data is. This makes it difficult to conduct many kinds of analyses on the data.

Finally, administrative boundaries change regularly and the CEC does not make geographic shape files available to the public that officially delineate the boundaries of precincts from one year to the next.

All government-generated data in Georgia is legally in the public domain, although no particular license is provided with the online data.

A general election takes place in Guernsey every four years. The last was in 2012, the results of which can be found at http://gov.gg/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=75784&p=0

Those data are not available from the 2 entities in charge of the elections process in Cameroon.

Elections Cameroon http://elecam.cm/

Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization http://minatd.cm/gov/site/en/

Election results are published on this website, with a copyright notice in the footer.

Disclaimer: Parliamentary Elections were held on Oct 26th, 2014 and the Presidential election is scheduled on November 23rd 2014 - This submission to the Open Data Index was made on November 20th, 2014

Preliminary results from the Oct 2014 election are available here: http://www.isie.tn/documents/arrete-resultats-preliminaires.pdf

Data on the 2011 elections is available from the Instance supérieure independante pour les élections (in Arabic). This data, not available in machine readable formats, was scrapped and used to build: http://tunisiaelectiondata.org/# (Mourakiboun, Development Seed, Democracy International). However, the links from Tunisia Election Data and from the 2013 Global Open Data Index to 2011 election data are now dead.

Reviewer: When surveyed after the parliamentary elections and after the first round of the presidential (on Nov 26), the ISIE website provided preliminary results from the presidential elections and additional information and data on the parliamentary elections. See: http://www.isie.tn/documents/%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AD%20%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%AC%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9%20%D9%84%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89%20%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A6%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9.pdf

I would thus consider information to be released on a timely basis -- even if the "data" is print-out, manually signed and then re-scanned PDF.

It is openly licensed but I can't find the link to the license.

Regarding the election results in Greece the following are valid: available data are not machine readable; not in bulk and without any license or terms of use. The data are available through a website of a private ICT enterprise.

The Election Statistics System of the National Election Commission in the Republic of Korea provides data on the Web regarding statistical results of presidential, congressional, and various local elections. However, the dataset is not downloadable, and there is no way to access the data programatically. Even though there is one WebAPI only for accessing real-time results during the election, it cannot be utilized without the appropriate permission.

All the data in the system are copyrighted and cannot be published or used for profit purposes.

The State Election Commission provides the data: http://rezultati.sec.mk/ Data is online available for 2014. Interactive graphics are provided but data is in html and download options do not exist.

The information on Election results is available trough a HTML tables and graphs for 2012 and 2015. Not a download option has being found.

Brief description: Actually Russian level of electoral data openness is quite high. Since we have unified federal information system for registration of elections results so all results collected and available via website http://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom It allows to select specific election and to view results with details up to election district. At the same time a few issues exists: 1. No machine readable data 2. No bulk download 3. No open licenses 4. No geodata for election comissions and electoral districs locations Step by step explanation: 1. Does the data exist? Yes, data exists here - http://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom 2. Is data in digital form? Yes, data available via website ahttp://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom and has digital form. 3. Publicly available? Yes, this data is publicly available. We don't need FOI request to get it. 4. Is the data available for free? Yes, this data is available for free. No payment is required. 5. Is the data available online? Yes. Data available at http://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom 6. Is the data machine readable? No, data is not machine readable, only HTML. 7. Available in bulk? No, only HTML form of data available 8. Openly licensed? No, this data is public domain data but no open license available. 9. Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes, this information updated frequently, on daily basis.

Comment: Nothing changed since 2014

The data is published on independent election committee website. The data about parliament elections. The format of is PDF embodied in website farm. The last was from 2013.

Election results data can be obtained from the official elections website managed by the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities. The data is available in PDF format.

There is also data available from an unofficial source (Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections) because of FOIA. The data can be accessed on Github.

The last general elections was dated in the year 2011

The current website contains the results of all general elections since 1963. However, many by-elections and municipal elections are missing.

The website also contains downloadable maps of the current constituency boundaries.

The last general elections was in the year 2012.

They were public during the election process, but now they've been removed.

Data published using visualization interface. User can select specific year and hover through to see the records.

Data is in html format and not machine readable.

Some of the other results were published later for example on county elections, women representatives and so on but still timely (July 2013).

Contains information on by-elections and referendums which is a great plus.

Copyright statement on site - non-open (Sander van der Waal, 20/10/2013) [Unchanged since 2013]

The National and Independent Commission for Elections (CENI) of Mali is responsible for the organisation of elections and does not have any website. The Constitutional Court is responsible for the legality and publication of the results but its website (http://www.cc.insti.ml/) does not work and there is no evidence the results have been published online.

Elections in Thailand are responsible by Office of The Election Commission of Thailand. They have provided National and Local election statistics, but in PDF format.

National Election statistics is available for year 2005, 2007 and 2011.

The website of the National Election Commission has a page dedicated for previous election results ( http://nec.org.sd/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%82%D8%A9/%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%AC-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%82%D8%A9/ ) and includes data for a variety of contests (presidential elections, parliament elections, etc). The results are available in PDF files that contain details such as the number of candidates and registered votes in each region in addition the voting results provided through an area-by-area breakdown for each region.

Data not found from The National Election Committee (NEC) website http://necelect.org.kh/nec_english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=218&Itemid=250

Electoral results are published right away on the website of the Comision Estatal de Elecciones.

The Autonomous Electoral National Commission CENA is mandated by the law to share the results data with the press, government, the Constitutional court and other third parties like political parties or groups of political parties. The website of the publisher in under construction, so all data are not available

2013- 2014 - Elections Canada is the elections authority at a national level. Its terms and conditions prohibit commercial reproduction of materials on its website (http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&document=index&lang=e). However, data.gc.ca publishes many of the same materials under an open license. Elections are also held in the provinces and territories as well as municipalities. Each jurisdiction would need to be contacted to assess the degree of openess. Regarding the conflicting licences we have sent a question to the respective authorities but we have assessed that data is available under an open licence.

Canada does count and report results in poll station level, but it publish and display the results in an aggregated district level. Therefore, the data exists and is digital, it just not publicly available.

License is open when you also look at these web pages: https://ssb.no/informasjon/om-statistikkbanken/hvordan-bruke-statistikkbanken https://ssb.no/informasjon/om-statistikkbanken/generelle-vilkar-for-bruk-av-statistikkbanken

License("URL to license or terms of use") in the link is not strictly an open license, and this seems to be since it's a general notice which also includes text, layout etc. on the website.

(Reviewer notice, 2014)

Edit 2015: Stastistics Norway publish all statistics for all elections and public votes on municipailty level, including registered votes, invalid votes, spoiled votes, blank votes and election turnout. The data is reported on municipality level (428 municipalities). All the data is open and licensed.

Edit 2015 II, (Oct 27, 2015): The election results are not reported at polling station level, but at the level of electoral district. This data can be found at valgresultat.no. You will find all the information about the election, including registered votes, invalid votes, spoiled votes, blank votes and election turnout. The data is also found, although aggregated to municipality level, at ssb.no: http://statbank.ssb.no/statistikkbanken/?PLanguage=1

Elections results are provided by the national government. The website site was set up by the Luxembourg Government. The site content is edited by the "Information and Press" and "Technology Information Center of the State".

Data is shown here- http://www.elections.public.lu But not in poll station level.

Data prior to 2004 is not machine readable although recent results are; marked as "machine readable" as this is the present data and direction of travel. Numbers are for "primary, runoff and general election results for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and, when applicable, U.S. President." They are "obtained from each state’s election office and other official sources." Raw data for the 2000, 2004, and 2008, 2012 Presidential General Elections are also available through the National Atlas.

For elections on the state, local and territory level, please see the Combined Federal/State Disclosure and Election Directory. It provides contact information and links to the elections offices of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Also, see the efforts to standardize local government election data being conducted by: http://openelections.net/

very limited content on the government website: http://www.caribbean360.com/index.php/news/turks-and-caicos-news-latest-caribbean-turks-and-caicos-news/633243.html#axzz2h38gyt2h http://www.caribjournal.com/2013/03/22/amanda-misick-wins-turks-and-caicos-by-election-pnp-retains-power/

There is no data from an official source.

Bahrain solely holds elections for the Chamber of Deputies (lower Chamber of the bicameral Bahraini Parliament, the Shura Council members being appointed by the King).

The website of the Directorate of Election and Referendum ( http://www.vote.bh ) provides details relating to the candidates and the number of votes they each acquired in each voting round. The data available on the website does not include the total number of registered voters or the number of invalid votes - therefore it has been considered as not being available online for the purpose of the index.

The results of presidential election and parliament election and other elections are existed, but we could find it online on any official websites.

The Supreme Constitutional Court in Syria supervised the presidential election and announce its results (https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7_%28%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%29).

Supreme Judicial Committee for Elections is the body to announce parliament election results (http://www.hce.gov.sy/).

According to the national commission, the results are available online, but their website is down. They also said that the data can be provided in excel format event if it is available in pdf on the website.

There is a data about parliament election in 2013 on the internet but on official website (https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A_2013). There are parliament election results for previous years on Kuwait National Assembly official website (http://www.kna.kw/clt/run.asp?id=334#sthash.cJbifVe1.dpbs)

The data does exist, but according to the law , The National electoral council is the sole custodian of this information. So it's is not accessible by the general public and a very few know anything about it, especially after elections.

Election information is provided as aggregated results, but the raw data is not available. For example, the report with the results of the last election is available here as PDF: http://tse.oep.org.bo/images/elecciones_2014/Resultado%20de%20las%20elcciones%20generales%202014/FINALISIMA%20RESULTADOS.pdf

• MUNICIPALES 2013 - http://www.ceici.org/elections/ci/mun2013.pdf
• REGIONALES 2013 - http://www.ceici.org/elections/ci/reg2013.pdf
• LEGISLATIVES 2012 - http://www.ceici.org/elections/ci/edan2013.pdf
• PRESIDENTIELLES 2010 (1st Tour) - http://www.ceici.org/elections/docs/EPR_31102010_RESUL_PROVI_CEI_03112010_A4.pdf
• PRESIDENTIELLES 2010 ((2nd Tour) - http://www.ceici.org/elections/docs/EPR2010_2T_RESULTATS_VALEURS_02122010.pdf

nothing changed in 2015

Saudi does not have an elected legislative or executive governmental body. Previous editions of the index have reported on the data of "municipal" elections which are only concerned with the activities of the municipality and are not 'national'.

The data about parliament and governorates elections can be found at The Independent High Electoral Commission website (http://www.ihec.iq/ar/). the data on the website lacks the required information like number of registered votes,number of invalid votes, and number of spoiled ballots. You have to search on the website to find some data, for example the parliament election for 2014(http://www.ihec.iq/ar/index.php/news-archive/6075.html). The format of the data is PDF.

From the Election Commission of Malaysia official portal (link: http://www.spr.gov.my/index.php/component/content/article?layout=edit&id=74%20target=), the datasets provided were incomplete. There were only 2 elections results provided which is the results for the 13th (2013-current) and 12th (2008-2013) Parliament of Malaysia. In order to get complete information, the public have to make a request to the Election Commission of Malaysia. Given that the institution is in the Federal State territory, submitting for Freedom of Information request is impossible because there is no Freedom of Information Act for the Federal State Wilayah Persekutuan. Therefore, the public can refer to 3rd party who did published these datasets online http://everypolitician.org/malaysia/.

The website of the Central Election and Referenda of the Republic of Tajikistan - http://www.kmir.tj/en/ - does not contain the final result of the Parliamentary Election of 2015. The final report of the OSCE ODIHR reflects the outcome of the election. The official information was disseminated by the accredited local and international mass media.

Election results are available via a special web form to tailor the output. The National Electoral Committee links to the dataset on Hagstofa Íslands' page from their own page at http://landskjor.is/

More national election result data can be found at: http://www.hagstofa.is/Hagtolur/Kosningar/Althingiskosningar

Municipal election results are at:

http://hagstofan.is/Hagtolur/Kosningar/Sveitarstjornarkosningar

Members of the parliament as well as heads of the executive branch of the government are appointed by the Emir of Qatar - there are currently no elections for such posts.

The National Committee for Elections is responsible for conducting the elections of the National Federation Council, the Emirati parliamentary body. The website of the National Committee has information about previous elections ( https://www.uaenec.ae/ar/about-us/about-fnc-elections ) that include information such as names of candidates and the numbers votes they each acquired. The data includes the number of candidates and the number of votes each person acquired with a state level breakdown. There is no polling station break down because there was one polling station in each state.

Reviewer's Comment:

The data on the website doesn't have the Number of Invalid/Spoiled votes, thus, I think I will mark the whole dataset as unavailable since it doesn't meet the requirements

The Ministry of Interior ( http://www.moi.gov.om/ ) has a website dedicated to Municipal Councils Elections ( http://election.gov.om/shura/index.php/ ) that provides details of the candidates and live voting results. Unfortunately, it appears that historic data about previous Parliamentary sessions have been removed from the website and the current version of the website focuses on the elections that about to start in the country. The current website provides the details of all the candidates as well as the names of every single registered voter.

The Ministry of Interior is responsible for this information and for the collection of this data. This website is run by them, elections.ma, though it in the results pages (example, http://www.elections.ma/elections/communales/resultats.aspx and http://www.elections.ma/elections/regionales/resultats.aspx) we could only find names for winners, MP's, breakdown of seats per political parties, and percentage of participation of voters. We, however, could not find number of registered voters per polling station, number for participation, invalid and spoiled votes. We were not able to access the Moroccan Open Data portal, data.gov.ma, during this reviewing process to check if such missing data is available there. We thus, will mark the existance of this dataset as unsure

Previous year's review below: The Ministry of Interior is responsible for this information and for the collection of this data. It has no website (yet ?). Also, the Ministry of Interior is not a producer of Data at the Open Data portal (www.data.gov.ma). The Ministry of Interior thus collects data but does not share it, neither on the data.gov. ma nor elsewhere.

No data exists online at all. The conditions according to which the data may be released are unknown. It is unknown how the data is handled. Thus, questions about pricing policy and timeliness have been marked 'Unsure' to reflect this reality.

2014 entry: The data on elections is not open to the public under EML standard. If this data is open it would enable new applications and insights that have a positive impact on our democracy. At this moment, very little information is available about the elections: On the website of the Election Council the results appear only five weeks after the elections in its database. In this database, only the results on the municipal level is shown, not at the level of polling stations. Although the unofficial results of the local elections were announced one day after the elections (March 20, 2014), one is referred to the websites of local governments for the results. On March 28, 2014 when the last recounts were done, one is still referred to the websites of local governments. On election night, news is followed by calls that are made by news agencies to municipalities. These are not actual open data of the actual results. A misinterpretation of results or an error in the news chain could cause wrong information being spread.

http://openstate.eu/2014/05/elections-data-in-the-netherlands-do-our-votes-count/

Update 2015: Data still not openly available - updated some questions from 'unsure' to 'no' based on what's available via http://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/

The Ministry of Interior publishes the elections results. You can see the results for the most recent presidential elections here (http://www.interieur.gov.dz/Dynamics/frmItem.aspx?html=140&s=23). The results is only in totals, no results per district or polling stations.

For the parliamentary elections, no results were found when we checked here, http://www.interieur.gov.dz/Dynamics/frmCategories.aspx?htmls=13&s=23

The UK's Electoral Commission publishes an authoritative collection of electoral results (including general elections, local council elections and EU Parliament elections). The results are collected from local returning officers by a third party on behalf of the Electoral Commission. The Electoral Commission makes the bulk data available for download in CSV and Excel spreadsheet formats. In October 2013 the Electoral Commission updated the terms on its website to make it clear that the electoral data was re-usable under the Open Government Licence. Data is provided timely.

The data was last updated in May 2015 with results of the latest national elections.

CEC is a public official. The information provided by government officials in Kazakhstan (by default) is open for reuse, publishing as cited by the law.

The main URL from CNE does not have the most recent elections. Those can be found at the Ministry of Internal Affairs website, which unlike CNE does not provide bulk datasets.

There are many bulk datasets missing from the CNE site as well. The results are insufficiently granular, with most featuring only general results at the national level.

In this page (http://results.hnec.ly/cor/) you can find results for parliamentary elections, though date (e.g. http://results.hnec.ly/cor/ballot/2/6) doesn't comply with aforementioned criterion, such as the presence of invalid votes and number of registered voters.

Last year's comment below:

The most recent elections in Libya were held in July 2012. At that time, results were made available shortly after voting ended. However, the website of the national authority for elections, the High National Election Commission, does not contain any information whatsoever about reports and statistics from these last elections.

We checked the Guardian Council's website (http://www.shora-gc.ir/Portal/Home/), it is who approves or disapproves parliamentary or presidential elections candidates. It has a section for elections on the website, but only containing election laws and another elections news section, mainly about the council's activities.

Currently, Electoral Commission announces the results after the Ministry of Interior confirmation. We checked the site for the Ministry of Interior, the page for the presidential elections results (http://result-p.moi.ir/Portal/Home/default.aspx) seems to be down. Wikipedia article about 2013 elections in Iran cited the Ministry of Interior as their source, but didn't specify a link. We couldn't find any web presence for the Electoral Commission.

This link from MOI should also provide the elections results data (http://www.moi.ir/portal/home/default.aspx?categoryid=c2cf29ae-2e8e-4319-a926-1e311d44c6d1), but links there are not working, and gave us errors when we tried to access the presidential or parliament elections results. Only one of the few links that worked for one past election, gave us data in the following format (http://www.moi.ir/portal/Home/Default.aspx?CategoryID=a49af0c2-962d-4896-9dab-994263db42f4 - http://www.moi.ir/portal/File/ShowFile.aspx?ID=7201aaf9-13af-48a0-902b-513b34e9134d), which doesn't seem to meet the standards

The data only covers the last election (2009) with no detailed records on other election results further in the past.

Data did not change until 2015.

The data on INEC official website is in an HTML format. There is a direct link to the data page now but the data is not available in bulk for previous elections.

No Changes in 2015

The data was dated from 2010. Elections will be done this year 2015 but not until a further date after this submission.

very limited content on government website latest and archive election results on the Inter Parliamentary Union website and third party regional and local websites: http://www.ipu.org/parline/reports/2267_E.htm http://www.ipu.org/parline/reports/2267_arc.htm http://www.sknvibes.com/politics/elections_results_new.cfm

The general elections was dated from February 16, 2015.

The information is linked to a third party website and data was for the year 2012.

There are no election results found from the official website Government of Timor-Leste. There is only a brief introductory about Timor-Leste political system http://timor-leste.gov.tl/?p=33&lang=en

Results for presidential and parliamentary elections. However data is just in form of tables in HTML (with not especially good structuring). As such marking machine-readable and bulk as No. Not openly licensed as terms of use page (http://www.eld.gov.sg/terms.html) has non-commercial restriction: "Materials, including source code, pages, documents and online graphics, audio and video in The Website are protected by law. The intellectual property rights in the materials is owned by or licensed to the Government of the Republic of Singapore. All our rights are reserved. You may download, display, print and reproduce The Website’s information or material in unaltered form only for your personal, non-commercial use or use within your organization. (Please ensure that this is your intention.) You are, however, not permitted to re-transmit, distribute or commercialise the information or material without seeking prior written approval from the Government of the Republic of Singapore. You are not permitted to use The Website to sell a product or service or to increase traffic to your website. " Data didn't change

The election results can be found from http://www.comelec.gov.ph/?r=References/Results and its outdated.

No evidence showing from the President's Officer website that the data is exist. http://www.myanmarpresidentoffice.info/en/ and the dedicated webpage for the cabinet ministries is empty http://www.myanmarpresidentoffice.info/en/?q=cabinet/ministries so no way to find out who are the responsible minister involve. I have found a 3rd party website http://www.ourweb.info/01/directory/myanmar/005/ that provide a list of ministries official websites but some of these websites are not found.

Original source and results for past years at http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de

Data published on govdata.de with 'Freie Nutzung' terms of use but no real license listed.

Most of data is now available in Excel format. Some minor data is still in PDF, though.

Other dataset could be seen from here. * http://www.soumu.go.jp/senkyo/senkyo_s/data/index.html#chapter1

"3) Prohibited use" makes the data non-open.

• http://www.soumu.go.jp/menu_kyotsuu/policy/tyosaku.html

I have sent this office an email to see if the licence may have changed and if by chance they have a plan to have their data shared in .xls

Election referendum results from (2002 - 20145 are available online for local, county, national and European by constituency per candidate, per count. Bye-election results are also available.

Data are available in pdf documents, so not machine-readable.

The data are under Government Copyright and therefore not open see here - http://www.environ.ie/en/Tools/TermsandConditions/ and also under a PSI Re-Use licence http://www.environ.ie/en/AboutUs/Re-useofPublicSectorInformation/

National Election data are also available here - http://www.oireachtas.ie/ViewDoc.asp?DocId=-1&CatID=71 and those data are under this licence Re-Use of Public Sector Information Regulations (S.I. 279/2005) http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/about/copyrightandre-use/ which differs from the Copyright note above, in essense election results are on different sites and fall under different intellectual property regimes.

No Changes for 2015.

Coordinator review notes: The site mentions Copyright © ECP 2013 - Election Commission of Pakistan. Changed Openly licensed to 'NO'.

Data is in pdf format and not machine readable.