At 2010-11-11 12:58:24+0000, Matt Ford writes:
> According to yournextmp.com only 311 constituencies have declared 
> election results. I know that at the time of the election the government 
> hadn't published vote counts for each candidate and the only sources 
> were the BBC and other press.
> 
> Now the information is all available here: 
> http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/elections/results/general_elections/uk-general-election-2010
> 
> Can this data be scraped and imported en-masse? Much easier than crowd 
> sourcing.

I scraped the results from the BBC back in May.

<http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/2010-general-election-results/>

Scraping from the electoral commission looks approximately as hard.

Nick B

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