Federal election candidates database

[James McKinney]

Hello all,

I thought I'd point you to a project I completed recently for the Montreal Gazette that provides demographic data on all candidates, along with photos and contact/social media info.

Compiling this data included scraping 3000+ pages from political parties, Wikipedia, etc. and I am confident that it is the most accurate and complete source for the sort of data it provides on candidates (I've noticed errors in others' lists along the way). In particular, I have the gender of every candidate, and you can choose to view a map of the distribution of female candidates across the country.

I hope you take a look and find it useful.

Cheers,

James

[James McKinney]

And the link! http://www.montrealgazette.com/candidates

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:28 PM, James McKinney <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello all,

I thought I'd point you to a project I completed recently for the Montreal Gazette that provides demographic data on all candidates, along with photos and contact/social media info.

Compiling this data included scraping 3000+ pages from political parties, Wikipedia, etc. and I am confident that it is the most accurate and complete source for the sort of data it provides on candidates (I've noticed errors in others' lists along the way). In particular, I have the gender of every candidate, and you can choose to view a map of the distribution of female candidates across the country.

I hope you take a look and find it useful.

Cheers,

James