Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture (ECPPEC): full database of voters

The Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) project ran from 2020–2023 to explore how people participated in parliamentary elections in England in the period from 1695 to the Reform Act of 1832.

Part of the project collected, transcribed and digitised polling records from 20 case study constituencies. This database contains those voting records (as at 07/11/24) in a single file that contains:

• Voter_id (an ID for each record, for internal use)
• Election_id (again, our internal ID)
• Election Year
• Election Month
• Constituency
• Type of Constituency (Borough, County, University)
• Election Type (by-election or general)
• All candidates running in that election
• Candidate(s) seated as result of election
• Voter surname
• Voter forename
• Occupation (if available)
• Candidates voter voted for