mysociety / yournextrepresentative

A website for crowd-sourcing structured election candidate data
https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/
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Value of storing data on incumbent parties (and separately, people) #901

Open jf1 opened 8 years ago

jf1 commented 8 years ago

Last night highlighted/confirmed the potential value of dc knowing how many current election seats each party held prior to the election, to compare with now. Knowing non-current-election party totals would be useful too. These are both to display at LA level as council control info. Incumbent person would be stored at post level, and incumbent party could be stored there too. Non-current-election party totals best stored at LA level afaict, with LA-wide totals for pre-current-election and post-current-election per-party calculated by summing the post-level values.