General election 2010: party donations, week by week - UPDATED

The general election may be over but the data just keeps coming. The latest figures are out from the Electoral Commission and they show the contrast in fundraising throughout the entire campaign. Labour had a final week surge of £1.1m but the Conservatives are the big winner in donations over £7,500 - they received a total of £7.3m in the five weeks. In the first week the Conservatives took £1.45m in large donations to Labour's £783,000, and in the second £2.2m to £1.49m. Despite a surge in popularity following the TV leaders' debates, the Liberal Democrats raised just £724,000 in total over the campaign - dwarfed by the big parties. The parties biggest donations so far are: • Labour: £1m from Unite the union • Conservatives: £500,000 from a Jonathan Wood (any ideas on who this is, let us know), then £265,000 from BMI founder Sir Michael Bishop • Liberal Democrats: £350,000 from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust And, just to confuse things, the Electoral commission has also published total donations to all parties for the first Quarter of 2010 . They show that even before the starting pistol was fired on the election, the Tories were way ahead. What can you do with the data? Download the data • DATA: download the full datasheet World government data • Search the world's government data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter