Local Elections in England, 2015

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The data collection is produced by the University of Exeter Q-Step staff and students in collaboration with the Electoral Reform Society who provided the initial coding frame. It includes the ward- and council-level data summarising the results of the 2015 local elections in England. It was collected from local council web-sites and through direct contacts with the Returning Officers where the electoral results were not publicly available. The ward-level dataset includes the electoral results for 5708 wards, their geographical identifiers and the gender of successful and unsuccessful candidates by party. The council-level data includes the electoral results for 279 local authorities merged with the ONS socio-demographic data. The data collection is unique since there has been no attempt to report the results of the 2015 local election in a single dataset. It will be of interest for political scientists, political parties and anyone interested in the statistical analysis of local election results – a topic particularly salient in the light of the forthcoming local elections in May 2016.

本数据集摘要的版权归英国数据服务中心（UK Data Service）及数据集版权所有者所有。本数据集由埃克塞特大学（University of Exeter）Q-Step项目的教职员工与学生联合制作，并由选举改革协会（Electoral Reform Society）提供初始编码框架。数据集包含英格兰2015年地方议会选举结果的选区级与地方当局级汇总数据。数据采集自各地方议会官方网站，对于未公开公布选举结果的地区，则通过直接联系选举主任（Returning Officer）获取相关数据。选区级数据集涵盖5708个选区的选举结果、各选区的地理标识符，以及各党派当选与落选候选人的性别信息。地方当局级数据集则包含279个地方当局的选举结果，并与英国国家统计局（ONS）的社会人口统计数据进行了合并。本数据集具有独特性，此前尚无研究将2015年英格兰地方选举的全部结果整合至单一数据集之中。本数据集将为政治学者、各政党以及所有关注地方选举结果统计分析的人士提供研究价值——鉴于2016年5月即将举行的地方选举，该主题的重要性尤为凸显。