Something similar has been done before: http://markreckons.blogspot.com/2009/05/has-our-electoral-system-contributed-to.html Perhaps useful for cross checking results?
Regards, Sue ----- Original Message ---- From: Matthew Somerville <[email protected]> To: "mySociety public, general purpose discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 3 September, 2009 9:10:18 Subject: Re: [mySociety:public] Constituency majority data? Juliet Samuel wrote: > I was wondering if the following lists of data are downloadable in .csv > format from mysociety: They're available from the API at http://www.theyworkforyou.com/api/ - not in CSV format, but it would be easy to convert the output. > A list of mps, constituencies and the majority of each (so that one > could sort by how safe a seat is) Absolute majority isn't a good measure of seat safety - it depends how many votes were cast as well (a majority of 100 with 150 votes cast is much safer than a majority of 100 with 15,000 votes cast). The ranking we give on the site is based on the percentage swing to lose the seat. > A list of MPs and how much the total they claimed on expenses or their > ranking on this compared to all others MPs. Yes, all this is available. You need to call getMPs to get a list of current person IDs, then use that to call getMPsInfo, with fields like the following: majority_in_seat, swing_to_lose_seat_today, swing_to_lose_seat_today_rank, expenses2008_total, and expenses2008_total_rank. ATB, Matthew _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
