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European Election Results

Dataset European Election Results
Licence Creative Commons CC0
Published 24th October 2011
Updated 12th March 2012
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European Election Results

Creative Commons CC0

European election results. Results for the 2009 elections scraped from Europarl website [1]. Results are at the Country, Political Group and National Party levels.

[1] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/parliament/archive/elections2009/en/national_parties_en_txt.html (page has been moved)

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Find voting countries who have won seats
Zach Beauvais
28th Oct 2011

Returns the identifying URI of voting countries who won seats.

Query: 
PREFIX ns1: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/european-election-results/def/> PREFIX qb: <http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#dataset> Select ?subject ?country WHERE { ?subject ns1:votingCountry ?country ; qb: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/european-election-results/2009/political_groups/seats_won> . }
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Election results in order
Pete Johnston
28th Oct 2011
Query: 
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX elec: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/european-election-results/def/> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> SELECT ?countryname ?groupname ?seats WHERE { ?result elec:votingCountry [rdfs:label ?countryname] ; elec:politicalGroup [rdfs:label ?groupname] ; elec:seatsWon ?seats . FILTER (xsd:integer(?seats) > "0"^^xsd:integer) } ORDER BY DESC (?seats)
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Find the name of countries who have won seats
David Massey
28th Oct 2011

Minor addition to Zach's query. Show the name of the country instead of the URI.

Query: 
PREFIX ns1: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/european-election-results/def/> PREFIX qb: <http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#dataset> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> Select ?subject ?name WHERE { ?subject ns1:votingCountry ?country; qb: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/european-election-results/2009/political_groups/seats_won> . ?country rdfs:label ?name . }
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Seats won by country
Tim Hodson
23rd Jan 2012

The Number of seats won by each country in the EU in 2009.

Query: 
PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> PREFIX ee: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/european-election-results/def/> PREFIX qb: <http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#dataset> select ?country (sum(xsd:integer(?value)) as ?seatcount) WHERE { ?subject ee:votingCountry ?country ; qb: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/european-election-results/2009/political_groups/seats_won> ; ee:seatsWon ?value . } group by ?country order by DESC(?seatcount)
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