A number of sites have this data spread out (Wikipedia has it per
constituency I believe, and http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/ I think, and
obviously party websites themselves), but nothing in a useful sharable
format.
We're planning on scraping the lists together from all the different
parties' PPC lists (this is being done by Edmund von der Burg,
YourNextMP I think) and using Demoracy Club volunteers to check it and
add missing candidates. I don't know when this will be done, obviously
depends on Edmund's timescale and how fast we can get volunteers
involved, but perhaps an initial release in a few weeks?
We've been getting quite a few requests recently, so obvious lots of
people are interested! Out of interest, if you can say, what's your
planned application? Knowing how people will use the data could feed
into how we do it.
-t
On 30/01/10 14:44, Ben Furber wrote:
Hi guys,
Will I be able to find the list of the known GE candidates (by
constituency, party, etc)?
I guess this data will be (easily) available once parliament has been
dissolved and local procedures have been completed etc etc, but is
there anything now from what the parties have released themselves?
Apologies if my failure to find this myself is down to bad googling.
Ben
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