For the last year, the Guardian has taken a very open attitude to the information we gather - we want you to use it. To that end we are making available through our Open Platform general election results back to 1992, general election candidates back to 2001 and, for 2010, live results on election night itself.
What this means for you is that you can power your applications with our information. Or you can take our database of results (we believe the only freely available one of its kind) and combine it with similarly-structured databases from sites such as They Work For You. You could see what Labour MPs in marginal constituencies have had to say about the NHS, for example. Or how they voted.
This works through our new Politics API (application programming interface in full) and is a way for a non-Guardian application or website to access the same information that we use on the site. It does require a level of programming experience - see the semi-skimmed and full-fat technical explanations for more. Alternatively, you can browse constituency results for the last four general elections and - soon - the candidates for this one on our Ask Aristotle database.
