The general election is on! Over the coming weeks, millions of UK voters will use Democracy Club’s tools and data to access information about their parliamentary candidates. Find out which candidates have already been announced for your constituency at WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk. Note that following the recent boundary review, your constituency may have changed since 2019. The official candidate lists will be published on or after 4pm on 7 June. The voter registration deadline is 18 June, midnight. Don’t forget you’ll need photo ID to vote in this election. Are you a candidate, agent, or party campaigner?We offer every parliamentary candidate a free profile on WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk. Find out how to update your profile. Are you organising or attending a hustings?We can promote these events to voters for free on WhoCanIVoteFor. Submit the event information here. Election data and resourcesWe offer a wide range of resources for campaigners, journalists and researchers, including easy to use sheets of candidate details, and an interactive election lookup which can be added to any website. Learn more about our offering. Local elections roundupThe English and Welsh local elections on 2 May were among our most successful ever. We collected polling station data from every council, answered over 5 million postcode searches from the UK public, and achieved record user satisfaction - a pretty good launchpad for the general election! News from elsewheremySociety recently launched a new project on MPs’ and APPGs’ financial interests, WhoFundsThem, and are looking for volunteers. They’ve also added our candidate data to the postcode lookup on TheyWorkForYou. The Welsh Government recently published a research report on the accessibility of democracy in the nation. Read it here. Electoral administrators are the unsung heroes of UK democracy. They’ve now been given six weeks to organise a nationwide poll. Andrew Smith from the Association of Electoral Administrators recently wrote for LGiU on the challenges they face. Read it here. Stay tuned for our summary of the election candidates after 7 June! All the best, The Democracy Club Team |