A history of general elections
A history of General Elections online exhibition based on LSE Library archives. It has images of artefacts and blog postings on the history of parliamentary elections from 1838 onwards. It highlights the founding of the Conservative and Labour parties, women’s suffrage and electoral reforms. Contributions are written by specialist curators and there is an accompanying […]
Shaping Europe
Shaping Europe The story of European Parliament elections. An online exhibition created by Europeana which is supported by Europe’s national libraries and heritage organisations. It is arranged in chronological chapters including the prehistory from the 1950s and the first parliament elections in the late 1970s. The text is clear and includes original images and many […]
Sites of Feminist Memory: A Map of Memorials to the Women’s Suffrage Movement
This site was created by citizen science which aims to geolocate on a visual map key sites to feminist memorials worldwide. Key figures involved in the project include Marc Calvini-Lefebvre who curates the blog Sites of feminist Memory: Women & the F-Word. https://doi.org/10.58079/vagc.The site is mapping memorials statues, commemorative plaques and buildings. Entries are being […]
Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture
Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture (ECPPEC)A project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council to research how people participated in parliamentary elections in England in the period from 1695 to the Reform Act of 1832. It includes coverage of the role of women. It contains case studies of polling data and essays and […]
Election guide (updated)
https://www.electionguide.org/ The International Foundation for Electoral Systems’ (IFES) ElectionGuide.org covers national elections in 240 countries, including snap elections and referenda.It provides verified information on: the structure of political institutions and electoral systems political parties and candidates voter registration deadlines and details referendum provisions; voter turnout election results. The recently updated site now features a published data […]
Impact of COVID on elections
Briefing on how coronavirus has affected UK elections, from the House of Commons Library
Virtual Votes for Women
Based on the temporary exhibition held at the Museum of London between February 2018 and March 2019. It has biographies of key suffragettes, images of events and artefacts. These include coverage of hunger strikes and militant activity and struggle. An 11 minute film sets the context and explain more. There are also links to other guides about […]
US elections: historic data
Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House Representatives – Election Statistics The Clerk of the U.S. House Representatives lists elections results from 1920 towards and includes the official vote counts for presidential electors, U.S. senators, and U.S. Representatives A New Nation VotesElection returns from 1787-1825 made available from The American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives American […]
A healthy US election
Stanford-MIT Project on a Healthy Election A joint project to bring together resources about the conduct of the US 2020 presidential elections includes report cards and data on individual states as well as national resources. There are guides to postal voting , a Covid- 19 electoral litigation tracker and a section on election conduct and […]
UK General Election data from 1918-2017
A House of Commons Library briefing containing constituency level data from 1918. This can be downloaded as either an excel or CSV file. Also includes votes by party, vote share and voter turnout levels. There is a user guide to the original sources.
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