Election Results / 2013 70% open

What data is expected?

This data category requires results by constituency / district for all major national electoral contests. To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:

• Result for all major electoral contests
• Number of registered votes
• Number of invalid votes
• Number of spoiled ballots
• All data should be reported at the level of the polling station

What data is available

•   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
•   Is the data available for free? Yes
•   Is the data machine readable? Yes (Excel)
•   Available in bulk? Yes
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
•   Publicly available? Yes
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
•   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

An authoritative collection of general election results is published by the UK's Electoral Commission. The results are collected from local returning officers by a third party on behalf of the Electoral Commission. The Electoral Commission makes the data available for download in spreadsheet format but without an explicit statement allowing open re-use. Although some of the reports on the link given are in PDF, the critical links for the definition of this dataset are results by constituency for national elections, and these for the last UK General Election in 2010 are in XLS at http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0020/105725/GE2010-constituency-results-website.xls A dataset for the whole of a nation-wide General Election is available, meeting the bulk download criterion. However the website claims copyright for the Electoral Commission; there are no terms of use on the main site, and some pages point to a page http://ec-build02.squiz.co.uk/publications-and-research/?a=11995 (in Electoral Commission branding) which says: "The information here is protected by copyright. You must not copy or reproduce any graphics or substantial amounts of text without our written permission.". So this is a fail on Open Licence by the criteria given.