Data Sources & Attribution
Beyond The Vote uses publicly available data from official sources. This page lists every data source, its licence, and the required attribution.
UK Parliament Members API
- Data
- MP profiles, biographies, election results, office terms, social media links, and portrait photographs
- Source
- members-api.parliament.uk
- Licence
- Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
ONS Census 2021 (England & Wales)
- Data
- Constituency demographics: population, age, ethnicity, housing tenure, economic activity, and qualifications
- Source
- Nomis — Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Office for National Statistics)
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Coverage
- 575 of 650 constituencies (England & Wales). Scottish constituencies are not yet covered.
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Crown copyright.
ONS Open Geography Portal
- Data
- Parliamentary constituency boundaries (2024 and 2010), ward-to-constituency lookups, and MSOA-to-constituency lookups used for Census aggregation
- Source
- ONS Open Geography Portal
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2025. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.
DCLEAPIL Local Election Results
- Data
- Ward-level local election results for England (2006–2024): candidate names, party affiliations, votes, and ward identifiers
- Source
- DCLEAPIL v1.0 by Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's LEAP dataset and Democracy Club data
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Local election data from DCLEAPIL v1.0 by Jason Leman, based on LEAP (Andrew Teale) and Democracy Club. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Democracy Club
- Data
- Live ward-level local election results for England and Wales from 2026 onwards: candidates, parties, vote counts, turnout and electorate
- Source
- Democracy Club — community-maintained UK electoral data project
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Live election results from Democracy Club, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
ONS Open Geography Portal — Local Authority Districts
- Data
- Ward → Local Authority District → County / Unitary → Region → Country lookup (May 2024 snapshot). Used to assign each ward to its council and to derive council areas.
- Source
- Office for National Statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Police Recorded Crime (data.police.uk)
- Data
- Street-level crime reports by category, aggregated from Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) to parliamentary constituencies
- Source
- data.police.uk — Home Office street-level crime and outcomes data
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Coverage
- 575 constituencies in England & Wales, 24 months of street-level crime data across 14 crime categories
Contains police recorded crime data from data.police.uk, licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Crown copyright.
ONS Built-Up Areas (BUA 2022)
- Data
- Built-Up Area boundaries and LSOA-to-BUA lookups used to identify named settlements within parliamentary constituencies and calculate settlement-level population and crime rates
- Source
- ONS Open Geography Portal (Office for National Statistics)
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Coverage
- England & Wales. LSOAs not within any Built-Up Area are grouped as "Rural & dispersed" per constituency.
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
OpenStreetMap
- Data
- Base map tiles used in all interactive maps
- Source
- OpenStreetMap
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)
© OpenStreetMap contributors. Map data licensed under ODbL.
Summary of Licences
| Source | Licence | Permits commercial use |
|---|---|---|
| UK Parliament | Open Parliament Licence v3.0 | Yes |
| ONS / Nomis | Open Government Licence v3.0 | Yes |
| ONS Boundaries / OS | OGL v3.0 + Crown copyright | Yes |
| DCLEAPIL | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Yes (ShareAlike) |
| data.police.uk | Open Government Licence v3.0 | Yes |
| ONS Built-Up Areas | OGL v3.0 + Crown copyright | Yes |
| OpenStreetMap | ODbL | Yes |
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