Andy Lulham andylolz

2016 Elections – Candidate lists

One Democracy Club (DC) plan for 2016 is to create candidate lists for all 2016 UK elections (much like we did for the 2015 general election (GE2015) with https://yournextmp.com). Last night @ Citizen Beta (Cß), Mark Longair rightly flagged that this is quite (very) ambitious! I realised I have no handle on just how ambitious i.e. how many candidates we’re talking.

The Electoral Commission have a list of upcoming elections: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/elections-and-referendums/upcoming-elections-and-referendums

Below are the numbers I’ve found so far for each.

Northern Ireland Assembly election

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Party	Selected	Women	% Women
Conservative	57	9	15.8%
Labour	58	16	27.6%
Lib Dems	54	14	25.9%
SNP	59	21	35.6%
Greens	31	13	41.9%

	dc_id,ons_id,ons_region_id,constituency_name,county_name,region_name,country_name,constituency_type,party_name,party_abbreviation,firstname,surname,gender,sitting_mp,former_mp,votes,share,change
	4252,W07000049,W92000004,Aberavon,West Glamorgan,Wales,Wales,County,Labour,Lab,Stephen,Kinnock,Male,No,No,15416,0.489039749,-0.030147537
	6754,W07000049,W92000004,Aberavon,West Glamorgan,Wales,Wales,County,UK Independence Party,UKIP,Peter,Bush,Male,No,No,4971,0.157694382,0.141898788
	5518,W07000049,W92000004,Aberavon,West Glamorgan,Wales,Wales,County,Conservative,Con,Edward,Yi He,Male,No,No,3742,0.118706976,-0.023776389
	5576,W07000049,W92000004,Aberavon,West Glamorgan,Wales,Wales,County,Plaid Cymru,PC,Duncan,Higgitt,Male,No,No,3663,0.116200869,0.045201451
	4561,W07000049,W92000004,Aberavon,West Glamorgan,Wales,Wales,County,Liberal Democrat,LD,Helen,Clarke,Female,No,No,1397,0.044316848,-0.118290556
	20,W07000049,W92000004,Aberavon,West Glamorgan,Wales,Wales,County,Independent,Ind,Captain,Beany,Male,No,No,1137,0.036068902,

	import csv
	import requests


	json = requests.get('https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/171928.json').json()
	petition = json['data']['attributes']['signatures_by_constituency']

	with open('electorate.tsv') as f:
	r = csv.DictReader(f, delimiter='\t')
	constituencies = [x for x in r]

	{
	"65642": {
	"codes": {
	"gss": "E14000847",
	"unit_id": "24722"
	},
	"name": "North Herefordshire",
	"country": "E",
	"type_name": "UK Parliament constituency",
	"example_postcode": "HR7 4LX",

	1930-06-21 Gerald Kaufman
	1933-06-26 David Winnick
	1943-08-20 Roger Gale
	1944-09-08 Margaret Hodge
	1945-11-14 Louise Ellman
	1952-02-01 Andrew Smith
	1952-03-22 David Jones
	1952-04-04 Jim Fitzpatrick
	1953-01-11 Graham Allen
	1953-07-24 Julian Brazier

	{
	"NiaGriffithMP": 481120639,
	"StewartHosieMP": 219298196,
	"MichaelMcCannMP": 397229449,
	"GWilliamsonMP": 368314502,
	"JohnHowellMP": 993161678,
	"tomgreatrexmp": 198912426,
	"PatGlassMP": 118429508,
	"NickBolesMP": 1548391070,
	"jarrowstevemp": 2808847414,

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import base64
	import os
	import sys
	import webbrowser

	import hashlib
	import hmac