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Re-usable results data for the 2015 UK Parliamentary Elections
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Add votes, and add quoting on parties that contain commas #8

Closed HughMacdonald closed 9 years ago

HughMacdonald commented 9 years ago

I have scraped votes from the Guardian's data set, and have added them in all but a handful (maybe 20?) of constituencies.

I have also added quotes around the party name in some constituencies, as there are a couple of parties that have commas in their name, causing the csv format to fail to line up.

HughMacdonald commented 9 years ago

As a reference, one example of a party with commas is "Beer, Baccy and Scratchings", who stood in Eastleigh

HughMacdonald commented 9 years ago

A quick update on this...

The following files have two independents standing against each other, with no differentiation in the .csv file as to which one is which:

blackpool-south-votes.csv city-of-durham-votes.csv epsom-and-ewell-votes.csv gillingham-and-rainham-votes.csv north-wiltshire-votes.csv nottingham-east-votes.csv ribble-valley-votes.csv richmond-(yorks)-votes.csv scunthorpe-votes.csv sheffield,-hallam-votes.csv south-basildon-and-east-thurrock-votes.csv stoke-on-trent-north-votes.csv taunton-deane-votes.csv uxbridge-and-south-ruislip-votes.csv wells-votes.csv witney-votes.csv

I'm going to give them each the votes that they got, but I wanted to keep that as a separate commit so that they would be flagged separately.

philipjohn commented 9 years ago

This is great, thanks @HughMacdonald !

Looks like we have crossed over each other with some of these. I need to fix the Travis stuff before merging this to ensure everything is 'tickety boo'.

HughMacdonald commented 9 years ago

Great - glad it's all good.

If anyone wants the raw data I used, it came from here:

http://visuals.guim.co.uk/2015/05/election/data/liveresults.json