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| Author(s) | David Boothroyd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Elections in the United Kingdom |
| Genre(s) | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | D. Boothroyd |
| Publication date | 1994 |
| OCLC Number | 51544846 |
| Followed by | The History of British Political Parties (2001) |
United Kingdom Election Results is a website and e-book by author David Boothroyd, published in 1994.[1] Boothroyd also authored The History of British Political Parties, published in 2001.[2] The site includes material on elections in the United Kingdom including election results and resources for further information, with links to relevant websites.[1] Boothroyd used a minimalist approach for the site's design, avoiding "flashy graphics", and instead placing an emphasis on "authoritative unbiased information".[3]
Boothroyd's website has been cited by other authors and academics. It was used as a reference in the book Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World by United Nations Development Programme, published by Oxford University Press,[4] and in a 2002 report published by the Politics and Public Administration Group, Parliament of Australia.[5] Boothroyd's site is listed as a resource by the website of the Parliamentary Library of the Parliament of Australia,[6] and the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at The University of New South Wales.[7] The Data & Information Services Center of the University of Wisconsin notes that Boothroyd maintains "an emphasis on including the entire range of parties",[8] and The University of York library comments that the "site maintained by David Boothroyd provides detailed results data for all UK Parliamentary Elections since 1983".[9]
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The site contains information and resources related to elections in the United Kingdom, including results of elections, candidates, and maps of election districts.[1] It also contains resources such as links to relevant websites covering politics, and links to websites of related political parties.[1] In an introduction to the website, Boothroyd writes: "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."[3]
Data on parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom on the website goes back to 1983.[8][9][10] It also includes 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, Northern Ireland Assembly, and Greater London Authority.[9][10] The earliest archive of the website in the archival database Internet Archive is from 1996.[11] The website is located at www.election.demon.co.uk.[7][12]
Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results is cited as a reference in the book Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World by United Nations Development Programme, published by Oxford University Press.[4] The Politics and Public Administration Group, Parliament of Australia, referenced the site in a 2002 work "Interpreting Election Results in Western Democracies", for information on the British National Party.[5] It is also used as a reference in Territorial Politics and Health Policy: UK Health Policy in Comparative Perspective (2004) by Scott L. Greer, published by Manchester University Press,[13] Regionalism After Regionalisation published by Amsterdam University Press,[14] Deliberative Polling (2004) by Eva Johanna Schweitzer,[15] and Popular Delusions: How Social Conformity Molds Society and Politics (2007) by Stephen Coleman.[16] Authors Oonag Gay and Patricia Leopold reference the site in their book Conduct Unbecoming:The Regulation of Parliamentary Behavior (2004), for information on parliamentary expulsion, noting: "As the author, David Boothroyd, makes clear, expulsion was no bar to further parliamentary career in the eighteenth century."[17] In their 2008 book The Politics of Electoral Systems published by Oxford University Press, Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell note that Boothroyd's site "Has detailed results of elections at all levels of government."[18] Valentino Larcinese used Boothroyd's site as a reference, in his study of the 1997 British general election published in the journal Public Choice.[19] The Guardian referenced the site in a 2007 article about politics of education in the United Kingdom.[12]
"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."
The website of the Parliamentary Library of the Parliament of Australia lists Boothroyd's site as a resource,[6] as does the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at The University of New South Wales.[7] The Data & Information Services Center of the University of Wisconsin notes that Boothroyd maintains "an emphasis on including the entire range of parties".[8] RBA (Rhodes-Blakeman Associates) website maintained by Karen Blakeman describes Boothroyd's resource as a "fast-loading, no-nonsense site".[10] The University of York library notes that the "site maintained by David Boothroyd provides detailed results data for all UK Parliamentary Elections since 1983".[9] "Scottish Politics", website of the Scottish Politics Research Institute, Alba Publishing, comments: "Those interested in election results and analysis from England & Wales are encouraged to consult David Boothroyd's inspirational United Kingdom Election Results site."[20]
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