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United Kingdom general election records. In the United Kingdom, general elections occur at least every five years. About 650 constituencies return a member of Parliament. Prior to 1945, electoral competition in the United Kingdom exhibited features which make meaningful comparisons with modern results difficult.
There have been 57 general elections held in the UK up to and including the December 2019 election.
ElectionNo.DatesPrime Minister Appointed By Monarch ...1802 ( MPs )1st5 July – 28 August 18021802 ( MPs )1st5 July – 28 August 18021806 ( MPs )2nd29 October – 17 December 18061807 ( MPs )3rd4 May – 9 June 1807People also ask
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Apr 17, 2020 · This dataset presents UK general election results by constituency from 1918 onwards. It draws on several sources, described below, which may contain errors. For each constituency, the dataset includes the number of votes and vote share for different political parties, as well as the electorate and turnout.
- Philip Loft, Elise Uberoi, Edward Hicks
- 2019
- How Are General Election Results collected?
- What Data Does The House of Commons Library use?
- What Is and Isn’T in Our Data?
- Publishing Election Results
When the polls close on election nights, counting officers in local authorities oversee the tallying of results. At the end of the night, or sometimes a little later, the returning officer declares the winner. Usually, the result, including the number of votes cast for all the candidates, is then added to the website of the local council organising...
A team in the House of Commons Library checks council websites to collect a consistent and authoritative dataset of votes in each constituency at the general election. Because there is no requirement for councils to publish election results in a particular format, there is substantial variation in which data is included and how it is presented, inc...
Our dataset is based on the information we receive fromreturning officers shortly after an election. However, returning officers sometimesneed to correct the results they initially publish. As there is no centralsystem for collating election results, we are not always aware of those changes.They therefore don’t always make it into our dataset immed...
As there is no central resource for UK election results, organisations including the Electoral Commission and the House of Commons Library have so far published one datafile for each election. Academics have made efforts to combine election results from different general elections into coherent datasets, but these typically only cover up to 50-year...
1974. The first general election was on Thursday 28 February 1974, the second on Thursday 10 October 1974. Where can I find the results of previous general elections? General Election results - 1918 to 2019: Commons Library data. See also: General Election 2019 (12 December 2019) - Commons Library briefing.
Latest data. 2022 Local Elections Handbook and dataset. Maiden Speeches in the House of Commons since 1918. Number of sitting days in the House of Commons by session since 1900. Browse by topic. Elections. Access original datasets and analysis covering UK Parliament elections from 1918, including by-elections from 1945. Government.
In the United Kingdom, general elections occur at least every five years. About 650 constituencies return a member of Parliament. Prior to 1945, electoral competition in the United Kingdom exhibited features which make meaningful comparisons with modern results difficult.
