Our annual report

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Democracy Club

Dear friends,

 

Hope you’re enjoying the heat. 

 

We’ve just published our annual impact report!

 

It covers the year from June 2018 to June 2019, which included a huge set of local elections and unexpected European Parliament elections. 

 

Some highlights: 

  • Our data on elections, candidates and polling locations was used over two million times;
  • WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk recorded its highest satisfaction rate yet;
  • We demonstrated the feasibility of and user need for producing open data on councillors. 
 

Some, er, lowlights (?)

  • We failed to convince the BBC to carry the polling station finder on their website;
  • With nearly 27,000 candidates standing at the local elections, we were only able to find the contact details for around 20% of them; 
  • We couldn’t convert website visitors into donors!
 

If you’re on twitter, you can see and share this short summary. 

 

And there’s more in the full report. 

 

Best wishes,

 

Joe

 

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P.S. Keen to do some crowdsourcing to be ready in case of a general election? Help collate information on Prospective Parliamentary Candidates here.