Does Democracy Club make you more likely to vote?
We review the feedback left by users during the 2022 elections.
Read moreDemocracy Club Blog
Our work, election news, and other items of interest.
The one where we celebrate all the polling stations
18,000!
Read moreTell me what you want, what you really, really want
We take a look at your feedback from May 6!
Read moreWhere and Who are our Users?
We present a host of graphs (and a map!) in an attempt to understand the people behind the postcode searches.
Read moreVox User Vox Dei: GE2019
In which we review the 4,000 comments left by the users of Where Do I Vote? during the General Election.
Read moreWhy can’t we cover every address on WhereDoIVote.co.uk?
Because (a) we don’t have all the data, and (b) democracy is under-resourced in the UK.
Read moreWhere Do I Vote? On Tour!
This week we’re comparing notes on polling station finders with Democracy Works.
Read moreUnder the hood of Where Do I Vote
Our blog posts tend to focus on talking about objectives and outcomes rather than implementation details, but in order to handle the challenges of a general election our websites make use of some interesting performance optimisations. For the more technically-minded, Democracy Club developer Chris Shaw provides a glimpse under the hood of Where Do I Vote.
Read moreWhere Do 131,474 people vote?
The polls have closed, there isn’t an exit poll, the live coverage is struggling to know what do say for the next few hours.
Read moreWhy doesn’t Google know where I should vote?
It’s election day. It’s late, and you’re tired. Because in the UK, elections, unlike royal weddings, don’t warrant a day off work, so you’ve only just got home. Somewhere is a small piece of card that was delivered to your house several weeks ago that had the address of your polling station, and a little map of where it is. But now you can’t find it, you’re searching under the sofa and in that drawer in the kitchen, but it’s gone.
Read moreHow ‘polling station finder’ helps councils
The local authority that voters pay their council tax to might not be the one that administers polling for their parliamentary seat.
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