Difference between revisions of "Elections/2021 UK elections"

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After processing this data, the end result is as follows:
After processing this data, the end result is as follows:


* 3904 [https://web.archive.org/web/20210509115449/https://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~andrewferguson/uk_elections_2021_betamax/twitter-usernames.txt Twitter usernames] of political parties / candidates<br />[[User:Betamax]] is running a manual [https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape snscrape] to grab the tweets (with media and outlinks).
* 3904 [https://web.archive.org/web/20210509115449/https://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~andrewferguson/uk_elections_2021_betamax/twitter-usernames.txt Twitter usernames] of political parties / candidates<br />[[User:Betamax]] ran a manual [https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape scrape] to grab the tweets (with media and outlinks). This produced a [https://web.archive.org/web/20210511184743/https://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~andrewferguson/uk_elections_2021_betamax/uk_elections_2021_twitter_scrape.txt list] (1.1GB in size) list containing 20.7 million URLs (13.1 million tweets plus outlinks and media links).
* 4175 [https://web.archive.org/web/20210509115426/https://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~andrewferguson/uk_elections_2021_betamax/facebook-url.txt Facebook pages]
* 4175 [https://web.archive.org/web/20210509115426/https://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~andrewferguson/uk_elections_2021_betamax/facebook-url.txt Facebook pages]
* 318 [https://web.archive.org/web/20210509115431/https://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~andrewferguson/uk_elections_2021_betamax/instagram-urls.txt Instagram profiles]
* 318 [https://web.archive.org/web/20210509115431/https://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~andrewferguson/uk_elections_2021_betamax/instagram-urls.txt Instagram profiles]

Revision as of 18:54, 11 May 2021

The 2021 UK elections were not a general election, but were a series of elections held across the UK:

  • Council, Constabulary and Mayoral elections in England
  • Welsh Parliament elections in Wales
  • Scottish Parliament elections in Scotland

Work based upon Democracy Club information

User:Betamax collected and processed data from Democracy Club, a UK non-profit organisation with crowdsourced information on candidates and political parties for the elections. In particular, the Candidate Database was particularly helpful, although several other spreadsheets were also provided by members of Democracy Club.

After processing this data, the end result is as follows: