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[fivemack]

So you don't have to scrape the BBC yourself:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~twomack/2010-results.txt

contains 4056 lines of the form

Chelsea & Fulham } Blue Environment Party } 17

The vote-count is blank for all the parties in Thirsk & Malton since that election hasn't happened yet.

The example script here makes the following list of parties standing in more than twenty places:

Party name	Number of places standing	Deposits saved
Socialist Labour Party	23	0
Monster Raving Loony Party	27	0
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	38	0
Plaid Cymru	40	29
Scottish National Party	59	59
Christian Party	71	0
English Democrats	107	1
Independent	250	13
Green	335	7
British National Party	338	72
UK Independence Party	558	99
Conservative	630	627
Labour	631	625
Liberal Democrat	631	630

(for the curious, the English Democrats kept their deposit in Doncaster North; the Liberal Democrats kept all of theirs but I divided by zero in Thirsk; the Conservatives lost theirs in Na H-Eileanan An Iar and Glasgow East; Philip Lardner stood as an independent in Ayrshire North after being deselected from the Conservatives)

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[fivemack.livejournal.com]

Yes, it went wrong initially: see notes at http://fivemack.livejournal.com/210357.html?thread=997045#t997045

If you download the version dated 0943 today, of 4069 lines and 164228 bytes,

cut -d} -f1 < 2010-results.txt | uniq | wc

indicates 650 constituencies.