PA provides an unrivalled real-time data service for elections and referendums. Nominations data, results rushes, detailed results and statistics are delivered for polls ranging from UK general elections to Scottish Parliament, Welsh Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly and London Assembly elections, and from council elections to mayoral and police commissioner elections. Data coverage extends to parliamentary and assembly by-elections.
The latest advisories on PA’s elections data coverage are below and may appear with additional advisories on the Advisories menu.
For details of elections messages in XML format used for digital products, see XML Format under Delivery Methods.
The historical XML for polls in more recent years can be found under Example messages, along with test sets. The results of the 2019 snap General Election have also been made available in readable form in the Constituencies section for reference purposes.
Advisories detailing the content and process for data coverage of forthcoming polls are provided on this site when an election is called.
The advisories include information on elections messages sent on the wire in plain text (TTY) and data format, along with catchlines and category codes. General information about wire format can be found in the document downloadable from the Wire format page on this site.
This is a list of when each council will count the votes, with provisional estimated declaration times, some based on previous elections, and all are subject to change....
20 April, 2022 Local ElectionsPA's Election coverage of seven mayoral elections taking place in England on May 5 2022....
02 February, 2022 Local ElectionsPA's coverage of the Commons by-election at Birmingham Erdington on March 3. ...
02 February, 2022 By-electionsPA's elections data coverage of the Commons by-election at Southend West on February 3....
02 February, 2022 By-elections