2024 local election data summary
All the candidates standing in the 2024 local elections.
Read moreDemocracy Club Blog
Our work, election news, and other items of interest.
Collecting candidate statements is hard, let's collect emails instead
A reflection on the problems of collecting candidate statements at scale, and a proposed solution.
Read morePlanning for the general election
A general election is on the way - here’s how we plan to empower voters, companies and campaigners to build the democracy we all deserve.
Read moreRecall petitions in our API
We’ve recently been asked by the Electoral Commission to provide information about the Rutherglen and Hamilton West recall petition in our voting information API.
Read more2023 local election data summary
Read more2022 local election data summary
The state of the parties heading into the 2022 polls.
Read moreGetting a list of candidates is harder than you think
Over the past couple of months, we’ve made getting that list more reliable and accurate with improved testing, cleaner code, and a better system for reporting bugs.
Read moreWe collected data on 1,500 politicians' favourite biscuit. Here's what we found.
What’s the link between biscuits and voter information?
Read more2021 Election Data through a Gendered Lens
We’re once again working with the Fawcett society to analyse the gender profile of candidates
Read more2021 English local election data summary
We’ve made our lists, and we’ve checked them twice.
Read moreWhat Van Halen can teach us about data
On the day that the GDS registers are shut down, we reflect on the Government’s National Data Strategy and offer 5 suggestions for whatever comes next
Read moreThe 4,314 times when postcodes aren't good enough
4,314 UK postcodes are split across council boundaries. Here’s why it matters and what we’re doing about it.
Read moreOrdnance Survey are getting in the way of open election data
The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) created data about elections months ago and Ordnance Survey are getting in the way by blocking its publication until after the elections in May. This means we can’t tell millions of people what elections they have this May.
Read moreThey Said It Couldn't Be Done (or, "How we know about every candidate in every election this May")
A team of amazing volunteers crowdsourced the details of 12,000 candidates for May 2016. Here’s how. And what’s next.
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