Election Results / 2013 61% open (avg.)

Partially available

http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/about.html allows reuse with attribution, but this isn't obvious with the All Rights Reserved claim in the footer of the homepage.

Detailed data in XML format available from the Swedish Election Authority. Edit: If one drills down through the pages, one can find XML and Excel files detailing the results. Eg. the following page is of the previous (2010) general elections' results in data files http://www.val.se/val/val2010/statistik/index.html

The information is available via both the Norwegian government website: http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/krd/information-campaigns/election_portal.html?id=456491 as well as Statistics Norway's election page ( with free downloadable data ): http://www.ssb.no/valg/?innholdstype=statistikk

The results of the current election, on the 9th September 2013, will be published 17.10.2013, according to the Statistics Norway page. The results from previous elections is already online.

Data is available per election in full since 1848 as csv

Elections Canada is the elections authority at a national level. Its terms and conditions prohibit commercial reproduction of materials on its website (http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&document=index&lang=e). However, data.gc.ca publishes many of the same materials under an open license. Elections are also held in the provinces and territories as well as municipalities. Each jurisdiction would need to be contacted to assess the degree of openess. Regarding the conflicting licences we have sent a question to the respective authorities but we have assessed that it is an open licence.

Original source and results for past years at http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de

Data prior to 2004 is not machine readable although recent results are; marked as "machine readable" as this is the present data and direction of travel. Numbers are for "primary, runoff and general election results for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and, when applicable, U.S. President." They are "obtained from each state’s election office and other official sources." Raw data for the 2000, 2004, and 2008, 2012 Presidential General Elections are also available through the National Atlas.

Data only became openly licenced on the 1st of February 2012 because it was the first disclosure date of political donations after Creative Commons Attribution became the default licence of PSI for the Commonwealth of Australia. This led to statement informing users that all other data from the electoral commission being licenced openly: http://www.aec.gov.au/footer/copyright.htm Otherwise, machine readable data (CSV overviews and XML for finest granularity) is provided minute-by-minute on election dates for media organisations to use in their reporting and now this access is provided to citizens.

Data is available at the Spanish Ministerio del Interior website.

First data on candidates etc. is available before election. During the election night results are made public with an estimated ten minutes delay, but not on the lowest geographical level. Full results are available when officially check around a week after the election. The live-results are handled by the company KMD and that has feeds to main media sites, but those feeds are not available for the public (only through the medias presentation of the data). Historical data and data from other elections local, regional and referendums are available in the same manner. The data the data became available are in regards to the latest national election (held 15-09-2011)

The data is updated almost in real time as the election results are processed It is not available in bulk, but the information is in easily scrap-able htmls.

The site gives results for instance for the 2012 presidential election down to polling station level. However only PDF format is offered on the website at http://www.dvk-rs.si/index.php/si/strani/volisca-za-volitve-predsednika-rs-2012 The disclaimer on http://www.dvk-rs.si/index.php/si/pravno-obvestilo asserts that under Slovenian Law these results are not subject to Copyright and so can be reused freely.

Very good source of open data, easy to navigate and process.

An authoritative collection of general election results is published by the UK's Electoral Commission. The results are collected from local returning officers by a third party on behalf of the Electoral Commission. The Electoral Commission makes the data available for download in spreadsheet format but without an explicit statement allowing open re-use. Although some of the reports on the link given are in PDF, the critical links for the definition of this dataset are results by constituency for national elections, and these for the last UK General Election in 2010 are in XLS at http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0020/105725/GE2010-constituency-results-website.xls A dataset for the whole of a nation-wide General Election is available, meeting the bulk download criterion. However the website claims copyright for the Electoral Commission; there are no terms of use on the main site, and some pages point to a page http://ec-build02.squiz.co.uk/publications-and-research/?a=11995 (in Electoral Commission branding) which says: "The information here is protected by copyright. You must not copy or reproduce any graphics or substantial amounts of text without our written permission.". So this is a fail on Open Licence by the criteria given.

Results for various election types exists in digital form. Good starting point for search is http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoznam_volieb_na_Slovensku .

License for the data is not clearly stated so "unsure" is filled.

Database is not on it's most detailed level. Vote counts basis are at a ballot level, not at a vote by vote detail. Not openly licensed because no license can be found, only copyright statement.

No explicite license is indicated, thus data is considered non-open.

The data on INEC official website in an HTML format.

The repository of election data is available since 2009. There is no license available on the website. An introductory text explains that data can be freely used by researchers and citizens but no reference is made to open data.

Information can be used for non-commercial purposes with attribution, as per http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/dienstleistungen/premiere_visite/02/02_03/copy.html

The Romanian Permanent Electoral Authority set up a portal where the results of the elections can be retrieved in XLS format. Usually, the results are published immediately after their validation by the Constitutional Court. Only the results of the more recent elections (after 2006, when the Electoral Authority was created) are available in re-usable format. The data is not explicitly licensed (thus the negative answer to the specific question) but they are available for free and can be reused.

Data available back to 2002

Older election results are available in separate subdomains accessible from a dropdown list on the upper left hand corner of the website. All data is licensed under restrictive terms (data belongs to the Higher Electoral Commission).

This data is completely available in open format. Election Commission is maintain the data.

The data is available online mostly in html tables or already visualized on a map. The open datasets are not available.

PDF not machien readable

press release: http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201209/10/P201209100125.htm elections website - does not appear to include election results though: http://www.elections.gov.hk/legco2012/en/

In my experience, the electoral commission is one of the few South Africa entities that make such datasets so easily available for public use (and providing information that is machine readable). The standard licence is restrictive, only allowing for personal use. could not locate how the results were "machine readable" or "available in bulk downloads: only PDFs found: http://www.elections.org.za/content/IEC-Downloadable-Documents/

Results for presidential and parliamentary elections. However data is just in form of tables in HTML (with not especially good structuring). As such marking machine-readable and bulk as No. Not openly licensed as terms of use page (http://www.eld.gov.sg/terms.html) has non-commercial restriction: "Materials, including source code, pages, documents and online graphics, audio and video in The Website are protected by law. The intellectual property rights in the materials is owned by or licensed to the Government of the Republic of Singapore. All our rights are reserved. You may download, display, print and reproduce The Website’s information or material in unaltered form only for your personal, non-commercial use or use within your organization. (Please ensure that this is your intention.) You are, however, not permitted to re-transmit, distribute or commercialise the information or material without seeking prior written approval from the Government of the Republic of Singapore. You are not permitted to use The Website to sell a product or service or to increase traffic to your website. "

Brief description: Actually Russian level of electoral data openness is quite high. Since we have unified federal information system for registration of elections results so all results collected and available via website http://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom It allows to select specific election and to view results with details up to election district. At the same time a few issues exists: 1. No machine readable data 2. No bulk download 3. No open licenses 4. No geodata for election comissions and electoral districs locations Step by step explanation: 1. Does the data exist? Yes, data exists here - http://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom 2. Is data in digital form? Yes, data available via website ahttp://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom and has digital form. 3. Publicly available? Yes, this data is publicly available. We don't need FOI request to get it. 4. Is the data available for free? Yes, this data is available for free. No payment is required. 5. Is the data available online? Yes. Data available at http://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom 6. Is the data machine readable? No, data is not machine readable, only HTML. 7. Available in bulk? No, only HTML form of data available 8. Openly licensed? No, this data is public domain data but no open license available. 9. Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes, this information updated frequently, on daily basis.

Name: Election Statistics System Coverage: Presidential elections and parliamentary elections, and various local elections (elections of heads of local councils and wide area) of the election of statistical data. [Reviewer comment: couldn't check the data, but if it's online it's public, so corrected that]

"data page states Crown Copyright 2013 (the Isle of Man is a Crown Dependency)

also independent http://iomelections.com/ maintained by a politico at a local data hosting company"

Election results are available in bulk per election and also per constituency (for a given election).

The data only covers the last election (2009) with no detailed records on other election results further in the past.

Some of the other results were published later for example on county elections, women representatives and so on but still timely (July 2013). Copyright statement on site - non-open (Sander van der Waal, 20/10/2013)

Available only in Arabic, in the official website of the Instance who organized the last 2011 elections for the Constituant Assembly. No other elections since then. Data is released as property of the IRIE (Independent High Authority for Elections).

The downloadable file formate is .xls, but only in Traditional Chinese.

PDFs so not machine readable. Could not find any licence.

Only PDFs of 2010 national election.

The site is not well maintained. There were instants when I had clicked on broken links of result data.

eg on http://www.ecs.gov.bd/English/MenuTemplate1.php?Parameter_MenuID=69

There is no sign of any licence.

Data is available fully in PDF form(state wise). In some cases provisional state election results are available as XLS. Its available for free but cannot see a licence on the data; and website is managed by Election Commission of India. Details include- List of Participating Political Parties List of Successful Candidates Performance of Political Parties Candidate Data Summary Electors Data Summary Women Candidates Constituency Data Summary Detailed Results

(also see http://eciresults.ap.nic.in/ )

Review comments: - Disclaimer says "© Ministry of the Interior. All rights reserved" so not openly licensed - Data is not structured so not machine-readable

The main URL from CNE does not have the most recent elections. Those can be found at http://www.eleicoes.mai.gov.pt, which unlike CNE does not provide bulk datasets. There are some bulk datasets missing from the CNE site as well.

Municipal elections were held in 2005 and 2011. In 2011, King Abdullah granted women the right to vote and stand in the next municipal elections in 2015.

All data regarding the referendums that have taken place in Ireland are also online at this URL http://www.referendum.ie/results.php. However, we where not able to locate hosted by the government archive of the parliamentary elections, 'data available online changed to NO. Based on the discussions on the [od-discuss@lists.okfn.org] list, it has been decided that the Irish PSI license is NOT an 'open license'. UPDATED 06/12/13 to reflect working doc (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhQCu4i-aiQPdGtqanlSY29heVZOd3dHUzYwZWY1Nmc&pli=1#gid=4)

No information appears to be available on most recent national, or local, elections. Only election information available is for the 2013 presidential election. Please submit most recent national electoral data for review if you find it!