Election Results

Assessment

• Open License Yes

• Transferable to Other Jurisdictions No

  Designed for local elections in England and Wales. Likely transferable

• Stakeholder Participation Yes

  The Local Government Association consists of local government officials who collaborate to develop best practices for local authorities, the would-be stakeholders.

• Consensus-Based Governance No

  Although schemas and documentation are held on GitHub, changes can only be decided by the LGA

• Extensions No

  The schema contains many optional fields, but additional fields are not supported. The LGA plans on extending the schema to include more election-data fields

• Human Readable Yes

  CSV template has readable headers

• Machine Readable Yes

  CSV format required

• Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No

  Election results are only published after elections

• Metadata No