UK Elections

Static Astro site for ukelections.co.uk, currently deployed while production DNS is being connected.

Status

• GitHub: https://github.com/tompickup23/ukelections
• Cloudflare Pages: https://ukelections.pages.dev/
• GitHub Pages: https://tompickup23.github.io/ukelections/
• Production domain: https://ukelections.co.uk/

Commands

npm install
npm test
npm run check
npm run build

Current Scope

The live scaffold is deliberately small: home, seats, area lookup, forecasts, methodology, sources, releases, and legal/accessibility pages.

The next product phase is data ingestion and modelling coverage, not visual expansion:

1. Democracy Club candidates and election metadata.
2. House of Commons Library historic results.
3. Boundary and postcode joins from ONSPD and Boundary-Line.
4. Borough, county, unitary, Westminster, Senedd, and Scottish Parliament model families.
5. Canonical schemas for contests, candidates, results, predictions, and backtests.
6. Forecast publication rules with uncertainty and archived predicted-vs-actual records.

Principles

• Every public claim needs source provenance.
• Forecasts must show uncertainty.
• Boundary changes must be explicit.
• Backtests are part of the product.
• Cloudflare Pages is the production host for the custom domain.