:United Kingdom Election Results
{{Short description|Website and e-book by David Boothroyd}}
{{about|a website and e-book|information about UK elections|Elections in the United Kingdom}}
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| name = United Kingdom Election Results
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| image = United Kingdom Election Results.jpg
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| author = David Boothroyd
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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| subject = Elections in the United Kingdom
| genre = Non-fiction
| publisher = D. Boothroyd
| pub_date = 1994
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| oclc = 51544846
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| followed_by = The History of British Political Parties {{noitalic|(2001)}}
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United Kingdom Election Results is an e-book and former website written by David Boothroyd, first published in 1994. Boothroyd also wrote The History of British Political Parties, published in 2001.{{cite journal | last =Caless | first=Valerie | title =The History of British Political Parties | journal =The School Librarian | volume =49 | pages=219–220 | publisher =School Library Association | date =Winter 2001}} The website includes material about elections in the United Kingdom, including election results, resources for further information and links to relevant websites. Boothroyd used a minimalist approach for the site's design, avoiding "flashy graphics" and placing an emphasis on "authoritative unbiased information".
Boothroyd's website has been cited by several organisations and authors, including the United Nations Development Programme and the Parliament of Australia. Boothroyd's site is listed as a resource by the website of the Parliamentary Library of the Parliament of Australia, and the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at The University of New South Wales. The Data & Information Services Center of the University of Wisconsin said that Boothroyd maintains "an emphasis on including the entire range of parties", and The University of York library said that the "site maintained by David Boothroyd provides detailed results data for all UK Parliamentary Elections since 1983".
Contents
The site contained information and resources related to UK elections, including election results, lists of candidates and maps of election districts.{{oclc|51544846}} It also contained resources such as links to relevant websites covering politics and those of political parties. In an introduction to the website, Boothroyd wrote: "Unlike some other political sites, this site doesn't go in for minimising the information to 'major parties' only, using flashy graphics that distract from the content, compromising its impartiality by accepting sponsorship, or including irrelevant party propaganda. On these pages you will find authoritative unbiased information and nothing else."{{cite web | last =Boothroyd | first =David | title =United Kingdom Election Results | publisher =Internet Archive | date =9 February 2008 | url =http://www.election.demon.co.uk/ | access-date = 1 June 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080209182341/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/ |archive-date =9 February 2008}}
Data on parliamentary elections in the UK since 1983 were on the website.{{cite web | last =Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System | title =Elections | work =DISC: Internet Crossroads | year =2009 | url =http://www.disc.wisc.edu/newcrossroads/links.asp?cat=Elections | access-date = 13 June 2009}} It also included results of the Labour Party National Executive Committee elections, European Parliamentary elections from 1994 onwards, a list of members expelled since the 1660 Restoration, and recent regional elections for the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the Greater London Authority. The earliest snapshot of the website in the archival database Internet Archive is from 1996.{{cite web |title=Searched for www.election.demon.co.uk |work=Wayback Machine |publisher=Internet Archive |url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/ |date=4 March 2016 |access-date=11 February 2017 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113828/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/ |url-status=bot: unknown }} The website was located at www.election.demon.co.uk. {{As of|2021}}, it is offline.
Reception
{{quote box |width=25em | bgcolor=#c6dbf7 |align=right |salign=right|quote="David Boothroyd maintains this site of British Parliamentary Election results, going back in some cases as far as 1983, with an emphasis on including the entire range of parties."|source= —University of Wisconsin}}
Several authors and organisations{{mdash}}including United Nations Development Programme (2004),{{cite book |last=United Nations Development Programme |author-link=United Nations Development Programme |title=Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=15 July 2004 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/humandevelopment0000unse_t5c8/page/55 55, 110, 113] |isbn=978-0-19-522146-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/humandevelopment0000unse_t5c8/page/55 }} the Politics and Public Administration Group of the Parliament of Australia (2002),{{cite journal |last=Holland |first=Ian |author2=Sarah Miskin, Politics and Public Administration Group |title=Interpreting Election Results in Western Democracies |journal=Current Issues Brief |publisher=Parliament of Australia |date=27 August 2002 |url=http://www.aph.gov.au/library/Pubs/CIB/2002-03/03cib02.htm |access-date=13 June 2009}} and Scott L. Greer (2005){{cite book |last =Greer |first =Scott L. |title =Territorial Politics and Health Policy: UK Health Policy in Comparative Perspective |publisher =Manchester University Press |date=10 February 2005 |page =108 |isbn =0-7190-6950-5}}{{mdash}}have cited Boothroyd's website in their works. Oonag Gay and Patricia Leopold used information about parliamentary expulsion from the site in their book Conduct Unbecoming:The Regulation of Parliamentary Behaviour (2004); they wrote, "As the author, David Boothroyd, makes clear, expulsion was no bar to further parliamentary career in the eighteenth century."{{cite book|editor1-first=Oonag |editor1-last=Gay |others=Leoplod, Patricia |title=Conduct Unbecoming:The Regulation of Parliamentary Behavior |year=2004 |publisher=Politico's Publishing (Methuen Publishing Limited)|location=London |page=1}} The Guardian referenced the site in a 2007 article about politics of education in the UK.{{cite news |last=Turner |first=Lyndsey |title=Education: Learn: After Blair: Most pupils can remember only one prime minister. Lyndsey Turner looks at what happens when he resigns |work=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian Newspapers Ltd. |date=8 May 2007}}
In their 2008 book The Politics of Electoral Systems, Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell wrote that Boothroyd's site "Has detailed results of elections at all levels of government."{{cite book |last =Gallagher |first =Michael |author2=Paul Mitchell |title=The Politics of Electoral Systems |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=23 March 2008 |page =630 |isbn=978-0-19-923867-5}} The website of the Parliamentary Library of the Parliament of Australia lists Boothroyd's site as a resource,{{cite web|last=Parliament of Australia|author-link=Parliament of Australia|title=Elections – Key Internet Links |work=Parliamentary Library |publisher =Commonwealth of Australia |date=15 October 2008 |url =http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/pol/polelect.htm |access-date=13 June 2009}} as does the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at The University of New South Wales.{{cite web |last=Mercurio |first=Bryan |title=Resource Pages: Electoral Law |work=Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law |publisher=The University of New South Wales |date=24 September 2007 |url=http://www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au/resources/electorallaw.asp |access-date=13 June 2009}} The Data & Information Services Center of the University of Wisconsin said that Boothroyd maintains "an emphasis on including the entire range of parties". RBA (Rhodes-Blakeman Associates) website maintained by Karen Blakeman describes Boothroyd's resource as a "fast-loading, no-nonsense site".{{cite web |last=Blakeman |first=Karen |title=Government and Politics |work=RBA (Rhodes-Blakeman Associates) |publisher=rba.co.uk |date=9 November 2008 |url=http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/govern.htm |access-date=13 June 2009}} The University of York library said that the "site maintained by David Boothroyd provides detailed results data for all UK Parliamentary Elections since 1983".{{cite web |last=The University of York |author-link=The University of York |title=Politics – Library, The University of York |work=University Library & Archives |publisher=york.ac.uk |date=23 February 2009 |url=http://www.york.ac.uk/library/subjectresources/politics/ |access-date=13 June 2009}} "Scottish Politics", the website of the Scottish Politics Research Institute, Alba Publishing said, "Those interested in election results and analysis from England & Wales are encouraged to consult David Boothroyd's inspirational United Kingdom Election Results site."{{cite web |last=Scottish Politics Research Unit |title=Scottish Politics: The almanac of Scottish elections and politics |work=Scottish Politics Research Unit, Alba Publishing, Scotland |publisher=alba.org.uk |year =2009 |url=http://www.alba.org.uk/ |access-date=13 June 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100128062241/http://www.alba.org.uk/ |archive-date=28 January 2010}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last =Stein | first =Stuart | title =Politics on the Web: A Student Guide | publisher =Prentice Hall (UK) | date =30 June 2003 | isbn =0-13-060572-7}}
External links
- {{cite web |last =Boothroyd |first =David |title =United Kingdom Election Results | work =election.demon.co.uk | publisher =Internet Archive |date =9 February 2008 | url =http://www.election.demon.co.uk/ | access-date = 1 June 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080209182341/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/ |archive-date = 9 February 2008}}
- {{cite web | last =City of Westminster | title =Councillor Details – David Boothroyd | work =westminster.gov.uk | publisher =Westminster City Council | year =2009 | url =http://www.westminster.gov.uk/councilgovernmentanddemocracy/councils/contactsconsultationandfeedback/councillors/cllr.cfm?cllr_id=6 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071220041203/http://www.westminster.gov.uk/councilgovernmentanddemocracy/councils/contactsconsultationandfeedback/councillors/cllr.cfm?cllr_id=6 |archive-date =20 December 2007}} — bio page of author, at official City of Westminster website
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