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

SourceLicencePermits commercial use
UK ParliamentOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Yes
ONS / NomisOpen Government Licence v3.0Yes
ONS Boundaries / OSOGL v3.0 + Crown copyrightYes
DCLEAPILCC BY-SA 4.0Yes (ShareAlike)
data.police.ukOpen Government Licence v3.0Yes
ONS Built-Up AreasOGL v3.0 + Crown copyrightYes
OpenStreetMapODbLYes

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