For the basic data, perhaps get in touch with Anthony Wells of ukpollingreport.co.uk.
Matt On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Matthew Somerville <[email protected]>wrote: > Sue O'Mahony wrote: > > 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? > > Sadly he has used the incorrect starting point that majority is the same > as "safety", when it's clearly not as I explain below; he also seems to > think there are 647 MPs when there are 646 (645 currently in fact), and > I'm not even going into the selection bias. :) Some of the comments on > > http://markreckons.blogspot.com/2009/05/mps-expenses-and-safe-seats-correlation.html > point things like this out. Ah, statistics, such a tricky field... > > ATB, > Matthew > > > ----- 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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