Tim Duckett wrote:
I'm looking for an XML-based API that would provide access to historical data for electoral results. Basically, what I'm after is the source data that makes up the 'Election Record' section of MP's pages on the BBC Democracy Live site, e.g:
Have you asked the BBC if they'd make such data available, given they should be doing things like that via http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/
You never know, might work!
Although the Beeb's done a nice job of marking up the HTML so it could be scraped, it would be *much* nicer if there was an API somewhere that could provide this.
Wikipedia appears to be equally well marked-up, and goes back further, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basildon_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29
Does anybody know of such a source?
There's some spreadsheets dotted around: http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/outlaw/sheetindex.htm http://www.politicsresources.net/election.htm#british http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/edates.htm http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge05/ge05index.htm ATB, Matthew _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
