Northern Ireland Assembly Election Results from 5 May 2016

On 5 May 2016, an election was held for the Northern Ireland Assembly. The dataset, published by OpenDataNI, contains results data from this event. It is licensed under the OGL-UK-3.0 open government license.

Use Cases

• Analyze party vote share and seat distribution based on election results.
• Study constituency-level electoral performance and voter turnout.
• Model political trends and voter behavior in Northern Ireland.
• Benchmark electoral data for comparative political analysis.

Strengths

• Data is from a specific, real-world election event on a known date (5 May 2016).
• Published by an official government data organization (OpenDataNI).
• Released under a permissive open government license (OGL-UK-3.0).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last metadata update is dated 2026-07-08.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Time Range

2016-05-05

Geography

Northern Ireland