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DDI2.5 XML CODEBOOK RECORD FOR STUDY NUMBER 5673 British Electoral Data, 1885-1949 567310.5255/UKDA-SN-5673-1 Field, W., Georgian Court University (Lakewood, New Jersey), Department of Social Work, Gerontology and Political Science Politicos Bookstore (Copyright in the original printed source.) Note History Data Service has acquired from Mr Dale, a perpetual non-exclusive license to disseminate these data. Mr Dale has also given History Data Service permission in the same license to enhance these data with the personal names of the candidates at some stage in the future. UK Data Service 12 November 2007 ELECTION DATAELECTION RESULTSELECTORAL ISSUESBRITISH POLITICAL PARTIESCONSTITUENCIESELECTION TURNOUTVOTING HistoryElections <P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P>This data were originally compiled by F.W.S. Craig and published in <i>British Parliamentary Election Results, 1885-1918</i> and <i>British Parliamentary Election Results, 1918-1949</i>. Dr William Field created a digital version of this data which forms the basis of this study. However, History Data Service has made enhancements to the original digital files. Enhancements consist of the provision of a documentation guide explaining this data in more detail and flagging some potential errors and omissions that the first digital version of this data had in relation to the original printed sources. Note that these data files only refer to general elections.<br> <br> <br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR>These data contain vote counts for each parliamentary constituency in Great Britain for each general election between 1885 and 1949. These files contain data for single and multiple seat constituencies. The variables found in the data files are: id - an identifier based on Craig's Sources (see the 'Data Sources' section below), seats - the number of seats in the constituency, name - the name of the constituency, the number of votes cast for the various parties in each general election, votes - the total number of votes cast, and turnout - the turnout figures for particular constituencies. Please note that this latter variable is not present in all data files.<br> <br> <br> Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.<br> Great Britain Administrative units (geographical/political)Vote countsNational Vote counts for general elections in each parliamentary constituency for the period 1885 to 1949 TextNumeric Cross-sectional (one-time) study No sampling (total universe) Compilation or synthesis of existing material <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.</p> See <restrctn> https://oai.ukdataservice.ac.uk:8443/oai/provider 5673 2024-11-28T07:26:48Z ddi:codebook:2_5