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ElectionScrape

Code to scrape the results of the 2017 UK general election (votes per party per constituency)

It reads the data from the BBC election results pages. E.g.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000636

Here's one we prepared earlier: election_results-2017.csv

NOTE: Some constituencies have commas in their names. This is a pain, and I ignore anything after the comma. E.g. the constituency (S14000019) "East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow" will only be called "East Kilbride".

NOTE: the data haven't been extensively validated. They might be wrong! Please check before using.

Requirements

  • python3
  • BeautifulSoup library (install with something like: pip install beautifulsoup4).

Usage Instructions

  • Download this project. It includes the script to do the scraping (scrape.py) and a list of all constituency names.
  • Run it with: python scrape.py
  • It will make a file called election_results-2017.csv

Note: it takes a second or so to do each constituency, so will take around 10 mins to do all 650 constituencies.

Other resources

Matt Daws put together a nice script to scrape the results of the 2010 election:

https://github.com/MatthewDaws/Python_bits/blob/master/election2017/Previous%20Results.ipynb