Data-powered democracy

Civic engagement powered by the most comprehensive election data in the UK.

Candidates and election results

Democracy Club collates and publishes the names and parties of all candidates standing in UK elections. We also publish votes cast for every candidate in all first-past-the-post elections.

All of Democracy Club’s election data is available as free to download CSV files.

The database covers all General Elections since 2010, all local and devolved elections since 2016, and all by-elections since May 2017. It does not include town or parish councils.

The underlying data changes a lot during busy periods, however the CSV files are updated every five minutes.

Candidates

These file downloads contain a row for each candidate per election. The candidate's name and party are drawn from the official lists published by councils. All other information is added by Democracy Club or our volunteers. This additional information includes geographic data, contact details, and demographic information such as age.

Each candidate is assigned a unique ID number, allowing for candidacies to be tracked across time.

Results

At present, we only collect votes cast for First-Past-the-Post elections. This includes spoilt ballot and turnout data for areas where this has been made available by the council. We publish winners and turnout for all other electoral systems, but not votes cast.

If you have any questions or comments about our data, please contact us.