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Scraping election results..

Posted by Russell McOrmond-2 on Oct 15, 2008; 2:38pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Scraping-election-results-tp1344.html


   Curious if anyone is taking
http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainCandidatesCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E
and turning it into a database?  I'm otherwise going to spend some time
on it.

   The link to the riding has the electoral district in the resulting
page (as part of the link to elections Canada)

   The link to the winning candidates points to full information for
those who are incumbents (email, websites, etc).

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