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#Functions for scrapping UK general election results from http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/edates.htm.
#point "processAYear" at the index page for a year (e.g. "http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge50/")
#The function returns a list of dictionary objects representing the results for each constituency. 

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

def processAYear(url):
    page = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).text)
    tables = [x.get("href") for x in page.findAll("a") if x.get("href")[0] == "i"]