Sunday 4 April 2010

General election candidates

I have started pulling the candidate lists for the general election out of the data provided by yournextmp.com and adding in twitter usernames and web page URLs (yournextmp.com has links for candidates but it doesn't expose them in the data) to post on this site.
Obviously as the general election hasn't been officially called let alone the nomination process formally completed the list will probably change between now and the election, a fair chunk of the process is automated so as the lists get updated mirroring the changes here will be reasonably easy. Please take a look at the note at the top of the listings page about how to get changes made.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an online aggregation resource for the local elections so I suspect I will end up doing a data entry job once the candidate lists are released.

1 comment:

David Ashforth said...

John Sharp, Conservative candidate in Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough, is on twitter.
http://twitter.com/jwgsharp