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For historic data, we tend to use books, government archives, or newspapers. | For historic data, we tend to use books, government archives, or newspapers. | ||
Live and historic results, as well as election calls, are brought to you by | Live and historic results, as well as election calls, are brought to you by civicAPI, our sister website. | ||
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Revision as of 19:33, 8 February 2025
The Elections Wiki is a project created by Computernewb to establish an encyclopedia and a nonpartisan source of reliable, official results for all current and historic elections across the world - including local elections, national/federal elections, referendums, and more.
This wiki was originally created as a sister project of civicAPI. It was created during the process of collecting historic election results as I realized how incredibly scattered all the information was. Often, I found myself having to go through multiple - sometimes dozens - of websites, books, historic documents, etc - sometimes in different languages - just to get the data I needed! And occasionally, when going through sources, I'd discover some of the data was incorrectly entered by other election archivists. So, that's why the wiki was started.
Where does your data come from?
We try to list sources on each page, but typically, it comes from official results reported and posted by the Secretary of State (or equivalent) of each country/state. (In certain countries, we may rely on state media to provide results, as the data isn't publicly accessible.)
For historic data, we tend to use books, government archives, or newspapers.
Live and historic results, as well as election calls, are brought to you by civicAPI, our sister website.
Data Usage
All that you see on this wiki is in the public domain, unless explicitly stated otherwise. It may be used for personal, non-commercial, or commercial purposes. We believe it is a public good to provide this information.
If used for a non-commercial or commercial purpose, attribution is required. Please include a link to https://elections.wiki.