Working part time for Public Achievement on the project WIMPS (Where Is My Public Servant?), I found something missing in the conversation around the 2014 local elections in Northern Ireland – a similar database or spreadsheet containing every candidate.
After popping in to Alan in Belfast‘s #OSBelfast election surgery workshop, I was feeling foolhardy enough to try and plug that gap. In a day. (It took about seven hours to retrieve and process 906 records.)
Anyway, here’s the stuff – notes below. I’ll probably try and add to what’s here if I get the chance to start playing with associated data.
Local Government Elections – Northern Ireland (2014)
Local Election Candidates (NI) 2014 (.xlsx, 45KB)
Electoral Areas (NI) – Council/DEA/Ward (.xlsx, 16KB)
Proportion of Female Candidates (by party) (.xlsx, 40KB)
Gender of Candidates, by DEA and Council (.xlsx, 16KB)
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