https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/local_election_turnout
Local elections: Where will turnout be a challenge?
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/local_election_turnout
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Local elections: Where will turnout be a challenge?
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/local_election_turnout
- Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
- Created: 2016-05-04T14:41:40.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2016-05-09T14:53:15.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-31T12:36:23.243Z (11 months ago)
- Topics: councils, elections, politics
- Homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35999707
- Size: 623 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Local elections: Where will turnout be a challenge?
We reported that "fewer than one in five eligible voters in some parts of England previously chose anyone to represent them in local elections, raising fears of a democratic deficit."
* [Read the story here](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35999707), including a **Find your election** tool.
* [Get the data here](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/local_election_turnout/blob/master/Turnout%20in%20council%20elections%202012-2015%20(includes%20spoiled-rejected%20papers)%20Source-%20Electoral%20Commission%20-%20Sheet1.csv)*
* Also [available as a Google spreadsheet here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N5LKgqUj9836fdqrH4LkQcqKmI14r1b7hgINgi2mzxk/edit#gid=0)*
* [Source: The Electoral Commission](http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-work/our-research/electoral-data)
* Rob Radburn [created an interactive visualisation using this data, a screenshot for which is shown below](https://public.tableau.com/profile/robradburn#!/vizhome/Voterturnoutbyward/VoterTurnout)
*Note: in row 1620 of the the original Electoral Commission voter turnout spreadsheet a number (42147) is given instead of a ward name. In the results for the council elections on 7 May 2015 its LA code is E05008935, the code for Anston and Woodsetts.* (Thanks to Rod Radburn for highlighting this)