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Dear [%full_name | Democracy Club Supporter%],
Tomorrow, the fifth of May, is election day! 200 English, Scottish and Welsh councils, the Northern Ireland Assembly, South Yorkshire Mayor, and a referendum in Bristol.
Democracy Club made some brilliant progress this year. Not only has every single UK council provided us with data for our polling station finder, but we’ve also translated all our services into Welsh.
Some fun facts for you:
Polling Stations
There are 22,000 polling stations in use across the UK, spread across 18,000 unique polling places: 12,800 in England, 2,500 in Scotland, 2,100 in Wales, and 600 in Northern Ireland.
But what do these polling places look like? Along with all the usual suspects such as community centres (1,900), schools (3,300) and village halls (1,500) there are also some interesting outliers, including a dog training club and 7 hairdressers!
Candidates
Who is running? Our volunteers have collected the details of over 21,000 candidates.
In England, the Conservatives are contesting the most seats (4,247), in Wales it is Labour (859), and in Scotland, where the STV electoral system is used, it is the SNP (557).
Enormous thanks once again to the hundreds of volunteers who gave their time to collect this info.
The Democracy Club Team.
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