Election Results / 2013 45% open

South Africa

South Africa is ranked #33 for this dataset

What data is expected?

Results by constituency / district for all major national electoral contests

What data is available

  •   Does the data exist? Yes
  •   Is data in digital form? Yes
  •   Publicly available? Yes
  •   Is the data available for free? Yes
  •   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
  •   Is the data machine readable? Unsure (xls / PDF)
  •   Available in bulk? Unsure
  •   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
  •   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes

Details

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/

Contributors

Reviewers

  • Mor Rubinstein
  • Laura James

Submitters

  • Adi Eyal
  • Gabriella Razzano