Election Results / 2014 57% open (avg.)

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 2014 with results of the local council and European Parliament Elections.

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.

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 check around a week after the election. The live-results are handled by the company KMD and that has feeds to main media sites, but those feeds are not available for the public (only through the medias presentation of the data). Historical data and data from other elections local, regional and referendums are available in the same manner.

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)

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.

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.

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

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

National elections results are available in open data at council level (Communes). However, it is worth noted the Ministry of Interior still refuses to publish elections results at pooling station level, even though the data are transmitted and published by civil society organization Regards Citoyens https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/resultat-des-elections-presidentielles-francaise-de-2012-au-niveau-bureau-de-vote-nd/.

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.

http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/about.html allows reuse with attribution, but this isn't obvious with the All Rights Reserved claim in the footer of the homepage.

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.

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.

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 guidelines of the Digital Agency of Italy)

This data is well structured and easy to access. Are datasets that were cleaned and sorted.

Most recent data is from 2010.

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).

Actualmente la Registraduría se encuentra trabajando para que los datos se publiquen en formato xml

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

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.

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

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/

There are restrictions on the commercial re-use of the data "Reports and statements filed by political committees may be inspected and copied by anyone. The names and addresses of individual contributors, however, may not be sold or used for any commercial purpose or to solicit any type of contribution or donation, such as political or charitable contributions. 2 U.S.C. 438(a)(4); 11 CFR 104.15. This restriction applies to Federal reports and statements filed in Washington, as well as in each state. Any person who violates this restriction is subject to the penalties of 2 U.S.C. 437g" http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/sale_and_use_brochure.pdf

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).

No license found on site.

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

Data available since 2002.

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).

Real time Election Result is available through http://eciresults.nic.in/. Data in excel format is also available in the site. API is also available for real time election result. Many web/mobile app has been developed using the API of http://eciresults.nic.in/.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Results of electoral contests are spread across different pages in the web site.

Bulk can be requested by email. The site is copyrighted under © 2013 Ministry of Interior. The site is full and comprehensive regarding elections data.

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

The main URL from CNE does not have the most recent elections. Those can be found at http://www.eleicoes.mai.gov.pt, which unlike CNE does not provide bulk datasets. There are some bulk datasets missing from the CNE site as well.

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

Data on parliamentary election results is available in detail as a PDF and in summary as PDF and HTML.

The electoral committee of Zambia publish all major elections results on its website in PDF files on a timely basis.

Zimbabwe has a very comprehensive elections results report, yet it is not in a machine readable format. For more information see the Zimbabwe electoral commission website - http://www.zec.gov.zw/

The site gives results for instance for the 2012 presidential election down to polling station level. However only PDF format is offered on the website at http://www.dvk-rs.si/index.php/si/strani/volisca-za-volitve-predsednika-rs-2012 The disclaimer on http://www.dvk-rs.si/index.php/si/pravno-obvestilo asserts that under Slovenian Law these results are not subject to Copyright and so can be reused freely.

Some of the other results were published later for example on county elections, women representatives and so on but still timely (July 2013). Copyright statement on site - non-open (Sander van der Waal, 20/10/2013) [Unchanged since 2013]

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

The downloadable file formate is .xls, but only in Traditional Chinese.

Name: Election Statistics System

Coverage: Presidential elections and parliamentary elections, and various local elections (elections of heads of local councils and wide area) of the election of statistical data.

About license, it says that only for non profit purpose, datasets can be used without permission, otherwise we have to get permission from government.

[Reviewer comment: couldn't check the data, but if it's online it's public, so corrected that.]

Also, there are 6 open api datasets http://bit.ly/1yLL201 (License: attribution and share alike, but it's not creative commons though.)

Election results from (2002 - 2014) 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 intelectual property regimes.

• 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

The Ministry of Interior ( http://www.moi.gov.om/ ) has a website dedicated to Municipal Councils Elections ( http://www.election.gov.om/ ) that provides details of the candidates and live voting results.

Municipal Councils Elections are the second most important elections in the country after the Shura Council Elections (the lower house of the Parliament) the website for the Shura Council ( http://www.shura.om ) is currently down.

Reviewer: the Municipal Councils Elections website (http://www.election.gov.om/) was down at the time of review. It is thus unclear what the availability of elections data is in general as its publication does not seem particularly sustainable with both websites being down (the Shura Council one is down at the time of review as well).

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.

Results for first and last presidential election of the country are available online in pdf format. However, only preliminary results are available for 2nd round.

Since there is no visible license on the website of the State Election Commission, we have selected "No" category.

The official data resource is Ministry of interior and municipalities. Data is available in PDF format.

A non official source that use a FOIA information is LEDA which is done by the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections. https://github.com/ladeleb/platform/releases/tag/v1.0

The information on Election results is available trough a HTML tables and graphs for 2012 and 2014. Not a download option has being found.

press release: http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201209/10/P201209100125.htm elections website - does not appear to include election results though: http://www.elections.gov.hk/legco2012/en/

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

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

2010, 2012 and pending 2014

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.

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

The data is available online mostly in html tables or already visualized on a map. The open datasets are not available.

Presidential elections results are available at the level of polling stations.

No Changes for 2014.

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.

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

Election data are available per constituency, but in pdf-format and without clear license. Latest update is 2012.

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.

Up-to-date XLS files of the European, federal and regional results for the elections of 2014. Not openly licensed or available in a non-proprietary format.

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

There is a data query system to show the result of the election via http://www.comelec.gov.ph/?r=References/Results on The data in this page are sourced from the Election Records and Statistics Department (ERSD). There is no microdata per constituency/district, but only aggregated for municipailities or even provinces. Data is not provided in a machine readable format (HTML). It is not possible to download data.

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/

Though it is mentioned in the site footer that the site is updated recently, but the last election result is not available there.

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 organization of the data is poor. Please click on 'Results of Election' menu, and select the particular election for its prospective results.

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

ELECTION CAMEROON http://elecam.cm/

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

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. But the results are not available online.

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.

Results for various election types exists in digital form. Good starting point for search is http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoznam_volieb_na_Slovensku but:

While previously data was published for example at http://app.statistics.sk/nrsr2012/ with option to also download the data at least in XLS format, after website upgrade old links are broken and old data is hard to find.

License for the data is not clearly stated so "unsure" is filled.

So compared to 2013, we made a step back with this dataset in Slovakia.

No information appears to be available on the results of elections in Cyprus. There is information available about how to vote and more technical aspects, but not the results. Broken links exist for the latest Presidential election.

The Interim Electoral Council (Conseil Electoral provisoire, CEP) is the independant body responsible for the organisation of the national elections and publication of the results. However, its former website (http://cephaiti2010.org/) does not work anymore and no actual website is known.

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.

nothing changed in 2014