2024 elections report

We’ve published our report on the 2024 elections.

This covers the 4 July general election and the 2 May local and devolved elections in England and Wales.

These were our most successful pair of elections by every metric. Between 1 April and 4 July we processed 20 million postcode searches from the UK public, setting new records for our local and general election work.

• We collected polling station data for every council in both polls. The general election was the first time we’ve had data from every single UK council at the same time.
• Our tools were promoted by 59% of local authorities as part of their election communications to voters.
• Our volunteers gathered a wealth of candidate information for both elections, including a photograph for 95% of general election candidates.
• We used Who Can I Vote For to give voters information about parliamentary boundary changes for the first time.
• We launched a new ‘your area’ lookup on WCIVF immediately after polling day.
• In partnership with the Welsh Government, we piloted polling station accessibility information for the PCC elections on Where Do I Vote.
• WCIVF received record user satisfaction for both elections, reaching 86% in general election polling week.
• Our partnership with the Electoral Commission continued for another year, allowing us to scale our impact.
• Worked with BBC News and the Electoral Commission to deliver our elections data on the BBC website.
• Our candidate data was used widely throughout the general election period, including by election prediction websites YouGov, Financial Times and Electoral Calculus.
• Had a jolly nice time, all things considered.

Read the full report.

What’s next?

We’re already starting to plan for the 2025 local elections, which are scheduled for 1 May (mainly English county councils). Our initial project focus will be on ElectionLeaflets.org, as well as making improvements to the candidates database which were raised during the general election. We’ll also be improving our elected representatives lookup, which we launched last month. Last but not least, we’re working on a data project relating to parish councils with the National Association of Local Councils. More details on all of these in the near future!

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