Merge pull request #1857 from alphagov/update-election-results

update election results

Author: joelanman

app/content/collections/government/election-results.md

@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ websites:
     link-text: Election results
 api:
 dataset:
-page-last-updated: "2026-03-24"
+page-last-updated: "2026-04-08"
 visualisation-data: election-results/vote-share.json
 contact:
 status: for-publication
 ---
 
-Get UK Parliament election results for every general election since 2010 and every by-election since the 2015 general election. Results include the number of constituencies contested and won, and the number of votes and vote share for every party that stood a candidate in each election.
+Get UK Parliament election results for every general election and by-election since 2010. Results include the number of constituencies contested and won, and the number of votes and vote share for every party that stood a candidate in each election.
 
 There are dedicated tables for members, parties and constituencies. These allow you to view the candidacies of former and current MPs, compare each party's historical performance at general elections and by-elections, and view any constituency’s results at each election. You can download the results as a CSV file.

app/views/generated/collections/government/election-results.html.erb

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <h1 class="govuk-heading-l datagovuk-heading-l">Election results</h1>
 
 <section class="govuk-section datagovuk-section">
-  <p class="govuk-body-m datagovuk-body">Get UK Parliament election results for every general election since 2010 and every by-election since the 2015 general election. Results include the number of constituencies contested and won, and the number of votes and vote share for every party that stood a candidate in each election.</p>
+  <p class="govuk-body-m datagovuk-body">Get UK Parliament election results for every general election and by-election since 2010. Results include the number of constituencies contested and won, and the number of votes and vote share for every party that stood a candidate in each election.</p>
 <p class="govuk-body-m datagovuk-body">There are dedicated tables for members, parties and constituencies. These allow you to view the candidacies of former and current MPs, compare each party&rsquo;s historical performance at general elections and by-elections, and view any constituency’s results at each election. You can download the results as a CSV file.</p>
 </section>
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
           <a role="button" class="govuk-button datagovuk-button" rel="nofollow" href="https://electionresults.parliament.uk/">Election results <span class="datagovuk-right-arrow">&#8594;</span></a>
     </section>
     <section class="datagovuk-section">
-            <p class="govuk-body datagovuk-body datagovuk-!-colour-grey">The page was last updated 24/3/2026</p>
+            <p class="govuk-body datagovuk-body datagovuk-!-colour-grey">The page was last updated 8/4/2026</p>
     </section>
 </section>