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Title:	British Local Election Database, 1889-2003
Keywords:	ELECTION RESULTS BRITISH POLITICAL PARTIES ELECTION DATA ELECTION TURNOUT ELECTORAL RECORDS LOCAL GOVERNMENT VOTING LOCAL GOVERNMENT CANDIDATES NEWSPAPERS METROPOLITAN AREAS CENSUS DATA CENSUS RECORDS CONSTITUENCIES CENSUS REPORTS 1889-2003 England Scotland Wales
Description:	<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P> This project has established a unique database of local elections results in Great Britain. The database contains data for the period of the twentieth century before wholesale local government reorganisation in 1973. It also links the existing English, Welsh and Scottish local election databases. Until now, these results had never been collated together, let alone transformed into machine-readable form.<br> <br> <B>Main Topics</B>:<BR> The part of the database comprising the twentieth century before wholesale local government reorganisation in 1973 was funded by the AHRB and contains ca.50,000 election results. These cover mainly urban areas, including English, Welsh and Scottish county boroughs between 1911 and 1972 and all London area contests in the period 1889-1971. In detail these are:<br> County Borough Council, first year: 1911, last year: 1972, number of cases: 35678<br> County Council, first year: 1958, last year: 1970, number of cases: 5270<br> Greater London Council: first year: 1964, last year: 1970, number of cases: 96<br> London Borough Council: first year: 1900, last year: 1971, number of cases: 7361<br> London County Council: first year: 1889, last year: 1961, number of cases: 1214<br> <br> The second part of the database which updates and links the existing English, Welsh and Scottish local election databases was funded by the ESRC and contains in excess of 150,000 individual local election results. In detail these are:<br> County Council: first year: 1973, last year: 2001, number of cases: 27663<br> District Council: first year: 1973, last year: 2003, number of cases: 87066<br> Greater London Council: first year: 1973, last year: 1981, number of cases: 276<br> London Borough Council: first year: 1974, last year: 2002, number of cases: 5827<br> Metropolitan Borough Council: first year: 1973, last year: 2003, number of cases: 18995<br> Metropolitan County Council: first year: 1973, last year: 1981, number of cases: 1641<br> Unitary Authority: first year: 1974, last year: 2003, number of cases: 9879<br> <br> <br> <br>
URI:	https://t2-4.bsc.es/jspui/handle/123456789/64586
Other Identifiers:	5319 10.5255/UKDA-SN-5319-1 http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-5319-1
Appears in Collections:	Cessda

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