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Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture (ECPPEC): full database of voters
Newcastle University
12/11/2024
Abstract
The Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) project ran from 2020–2023 to explore how people participated in parliamentary elections in England in the period from 1695 to the Reform Act of 1832.
Part of the project collected, transcribed and digitised polling records from 20 case study constituencies. This database contains those voting records (as at 07/11/24) in a single file that contains:
Voter_id (an ID for each record, for internal use)
Election_id (again, our internal ID)
Election Year
Election Month
Constituency
Type of Constituency (Borough, County, University)
Election Type (by-election or general)
All candidates running in that election
Candidate(s) seated as result of election
Voter surname
Voter forename
Occupation (if available)
Candidates voter voted for
Details
- Title
- Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture (ECPPEC): full database of voters
- Authors/Creators
- Matthew GrenbyJohn SchoneboomTom SchofieldDaniel Foster-Smith
- Publisher
- Newcastle University
- Grant note
- Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture - AH/S01098X/1 / Arts and Humanities Research Council (https://ror.org/0505m1554)
- Identifiers
- 991005722664707891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Media and Communication
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dataset
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