Historical database of twentieth century local elections in Great Britain

The aim of the proposal was to facilitate outside access to a local elections database that provides as comprehensive coverage as possible of local elections in Britain throughout the twentieth century. Plymouth University's Local Elections Centre had earlier collated in database form the results of some 120,000 local authority ward elections since 1973. This has now been supplemented by a database going back to the beginning of the twentieth century - based on local election results in London, the English, Scottish and Welsh county boroughs and a sample of shire county, non-county borough, urban and rural district councils - so providing a unique resource that will greatly enhance the study of modern elections in Britain.