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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.

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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: County Borough Council, first year: 1911, last year: 1972, number of cases: 35678 County Council, first year: 1958, last year: 1970, number of cases: 5270 Greater London Council: first year: 1964, last year: 1970, number of cases: 96 London Borough Council: first year: 1900, last year: 1971, number of cases: 7361 London County Council: first year: 1889, last year: 1961, number of cases: 1214 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: County Council: first year: 1973, last year: 2001, number of cases: 27663 District Council: first year: 1973, last year: 2003, number of cases: 87066 Greater London Council: first year: 1973, last year: 1981, number of cases: 276 London Borough Council: first year: 1974, last year: 2002, number of cases: 5827 Metropolitan Borough Council: first year: 1973, last year: 2003, number of cases: 18995 Metropolitan County Council: first year: 1973, last year: 1981, number of cases: 1641 Unitary Authority: first year: 1974, last year: 2003, number of cases: 9879

No sampling (total universe)

Compilation or synthesis of existing material