The Ballotin: We need you this election season!

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Dear [%first_name | Democracy Club Supporter%],

Election season is upon us!

Democracy Club’s mission is to give everyone vital voting information for this election.

Democracy Club runs the UK’s elections, polling stations and candidate database and API. This powers the Electoral Commission’s voter information page, and our own WhereDoIVote.co.uk and WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk, as well as a voting widget that will be embedded on many websites in the next few weeks.

In 2019 we served six million voters vital voting information, thanks to you.

We need you

All of our data relies on the work of volunteer contributors, who collect candidate lists, photograph election leaflets, and spread the word about our work.

This year we need you to join hundreds of others to help us crowdsource:

Candidate information

Candidate nominations close on different dates depending on the nation:

30 March (Scotland)
6 April (England and Wales)
8 April (Northern Ireland)

We’ll need your help after these dates! We’ll let you know when in a future email.

Election Leaflets

Everyone’s favourite database of pothole photos and dubious graphs is back! Received a leaflet in the post? Take a moment out from your trip to the recycling bin to snap a photo and upload it to our archive. Add a leaflet to the archive.

Election Hustings

Hustings allow voters to meet and quiz their candidates before polling day. We let you know when a husting is taking place in a specific area on WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk. Are you organising a hustings or know someone who is? Tell us about it and we’ll advertise it to thousands of voters for free! Report a hustings event.

Political Party Manifestos

Each election, many local political party branches publish their plans for the local area. We want to collect as many of these documents as possible to help voters make an informed choice. You can submit any manifesto you see, or if you are a member of a local party and want to get your vision to as many people as possible, you can submit them too. Submit a manifesto document.

Join us and 900 others on Slack

Slack is where we work day to day, and where all the volunteers will be talking - get involved.

What elections are we talking about?

On 5 May, voters will elect the Northern Ireland Assembly and 6,819 councillors across England, Scotland and Wales - in total, 200 GB local authorities will be holding elections. This includes every single councillor in Scotland, Wales, Greater London and Birmingham. It’s the largest set of elections until the next general election.

Read more about the 2022 elections on our blog, and find out if you will have something to vote for by entering your postcode at WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk.

All the best,

The Democracy Club Team