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This data category requires results by constituency / district for major national electoral contests. Election data informs about voting outcomes and voting process. What are electoral majorities and minorities? How many votes are registered, invalid, or spoilt? Where can voters vote, and who are the candidates? The Index collaborated with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) to develop this data category. For more information, see the NDI’s Open Elections Data Initiative.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Downloadable | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | No license cited - T&Cs state: "2.1. IEC’s licenses the User to view, download and print the content of the IEC’s website, provided that such content is used for personal, educational and/or non-commercial purposes only. 2.2. Content from the IEC’s website shall not be used or exploited by Users for any commercial and non-private purposes without the prior written consent of IEC’s." |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | CSV | PDF available too |
| location | https://www.elections.org.za/content/Elections/National- - IEC National and Provincial latest election results | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | I google and was directed to the IEC site where I browsed to election results | |
| characteristics | Results of national electoral contests, Figures of registered votes, Figures of invalid/spoiled votes, Results by constituency/district | all of these dimensions are available in the dataset. In addition, the 2 extra attributes listed in the research handbook (Locations of voter registration centers and List of electoral candidates with ballot qualification) are also available. It might be best to list these explicitly as per other indicators on other datasets |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) |