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Statistics in Society

Forecasting on British election night 1997, by P. J. Brown, D. Firth and C. D. Payne
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Statistics in Society, Volume 162 (1999), part 2, pages 211-226

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clive.payne@nuffield.oxford.ac.uk  

1997 General Election results by constituency, in declaration order: 659 constituencies in all, one record per constituency.

7 fields in each record:

Field 1, cols 1-3: Press Association (PA) constituency ID number
Field 2, cols 5-21: Constituency name
Field 3, cols 22-27: Votes for the Conservatives
Field 4, cols 29-34: Votes for Labour
Field 5, cols 36-41: Votes for the Liberal Democrats
Field 6, cols 43-48: Votes for nationalist party (SNP if Scotland, PC if Wales)
Field 7, cols 50-55: Votes for others, aggregated

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