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| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licenced | Yes | Unless otherwise noted in the materials excluded and rights reserved list below, material on this website, including publications, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence (CC BY 3.0). |
| In an open and machine-readable format | CSV, TXT, XML | |
| Downloadable at once | Yes | There is a wide range of datasets provided for download, The XML feed presents the entire download in Oasis Election Markup Language (https://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/eml-v7.0.html) |
| Up-to-date | Yes | Data is release progressively through the election day, and is maintained as an archive |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | google search | |
| licence_url | https://www.aec.gov.au/footer/Copyright.htm | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 3 | |
| collector_name | Australian Electoral Commission | |
| characteristics | Results for major electoral contests, Number of registered votes, Number of invalid votes, Number of spoiled ballots, Data available at polling station level | Invalid and Spoiled ballots are both recorded as Informal Votes https://www.aec.gov.au/voting/informal_voting/ |
| location | https://results.aec.gov.au/20499/Website/HouseDefault-20 - 2016 Federal Election results site, ftp://mediafeedarchive.aec.gov.au/20499 - 2016 Bulk file in XML format (OASIS Election Markup), https://results.aec.gov.au - 2001-2016 Election Result Archives | As well as the public site, the AEC provides a live XML feed for the Media on election day. These files present a complete form of the results. |
Navigation through the website to find elections results is pretty straightforward: Elections > Elections results: 2001 to present > Select election. Submitter noted that as well as the public site, the AEC provides a live XML feed for the Media on election day. These files present a complete form of the results. Invalid votes and spoiled ballots are recorded as “Informal votes” (https://www.aec.gov.au/voting/informal_voting/). There is a wide range of datasets provided for download, the XML feed presents the entire download in Oasis Election Markup Language (https://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/eml-v7.0.html). As for timely publication, submitter indicates that data is released progressively through the election day. The AEC data also contains the full distribution of preferences.