DCLEAPIL v1.0 British local election results dataset 2006-2024

The DCLEAPIL results dataset covers British local government (principal authority) election results from 2006 to 2024, including candidate names, parties, party type, votes, vote share, Effective Number of Parties, and ward / council identifiers. The results dataset also includes partial data on electorate size, turnout, and by-elections. The collection includes a detailed coding for political parties, information on variables, and a READ ME file with further information. The DCLEAPIL dataset is public domain under a sharealike and public attribution license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

The dataset draws primarily from Andrew Teale’s LEAP dataset of local election results between 2006 and 2021, and that of the Democracy Club from 2019 to 2024. These two datasets were merged and checked by Jason Leman, kindly assisted by Andrew Teale of LEAP, Peter Keeling and others at Democracy Club. The Democracy Club dataset does not include votes cast for candidates in Scottish elections. Gerry Mulvaney’s data on votes cast for Scottish elections for 2022, hosted by Indy Live and itself drawing on Democracy Club candidate data, was therefore added to the dataset to increase coverage for Scottish elections. Local Government Boundary Commission data on electorate size was added to increase the coverage of turnout statistics.

Main data sources for the DCLEAPIL dataset.

Andrew Teale's Local Elections Archive Project
https://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/downloads

Democracy Club
https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/data/

Gerry Mulvenna - IndyLive
https://election.indylive.radio/download/

Local Government Boundary Commission
https://www.lgbce.org.uk/electoral-data

For more information on the dataset construction, checking processes, and calculations, please see the READ ME file.