This library encapsulates timetable legislation for elections run in the United Kingdom and its devolved administrations.
The election timetable varies based on:
- Type of Post - Parliamentary, Local, devolved Government, etc.
- Country - The United Kingdom has up to four different rules for the same type of election, one for each country.
- Calendar - each country has their own unique set of Bank Holidays.
from datetime import date
from uk_election_timetables.elections.uk_parliament import UKParliamentElection
election = UKParliamentElection(date(2019, 2, 21))
print(election.sopn_publish_date) # date(2019, 1, 25)
This project checks daily for additions to the government bank holiday dataset at https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays.json. When an addition is identified in the .gov file, this project will automatically create a GitHub issue to update our local bank holiday dataset.
To update bank-holidays.json
with additions from the government supplied file, run the following within your venv:
python manage_bank_holidays.py --update
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pip install uk_election_timetables
pytest
- Local
- City of London Local
- United Kingdom Parliament
- Scottish Parliament
- Senedd Cymru
- Northern Ireland Assembly
- Mayoral
- Mayoral (London)
- Greater London Assembly
- Police and Crime commissioner