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Our vision is of a country with the digital foundations to support everyone’s participation in democratic life. - Democracy Club

189 Posts, 40 Following, 335 Followers · Creating the digital foundations to support everyone's participation in democratic life. We built...

In this week’s blog: scarily named security issues threaten to ruin everything, we’ve lost some civic tech mapping friends, we read Her Majesty’s...

In this week’s blog: what’s the five-a-day for democracy, what do women candidates want, and can we find more local election hustings?

Our blog posts tend to focus on talking about objectives and outcomes rather than implementation details, but in order to handle the challenges of a general...

We try to hammer out our aims for the year — please give us your feedback. Also, two evaluations of the voter ID pilots have been published — and we want...

Democracy Club grows again, and gains a funder!

We present a host of graphs (and a map!) in an attempt to understand the people behind the postcode searches.

A short Fridayblog in which we ask: would you like to host a crowdsourcing party this April? And we congratulate the French.

We launched our May '16 — June '17 annual report at a party in London.

As local elections draw closer, we're keenly listening out to an announcement on local democracy by the BBC's Director-General.

Westminster politics getting you down? Don’t worry — come party with us to make local democracy better!

If you use our candidate CSV downloads, or CSV downloads from anyone else, we want your help and feedback!

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Life comes at us pretty fast in this week’s Thursdayblog, which is an outline of GE2019 planning.

Our annual review of our election work and impact.

Some reflections on our impartiality.

We return to the subject of the API terms of use! Woohoo!

Celebrating a decade of postcodes, maps, and happy voters.

Jul 1, 2025 - Jonathan Sumption is an author, medieval historian, barrister and former senior judge of the UK Supreme Court. His recent piece in the New York Times on why...

Who’s standing in Scotland? How much does it cost to be mayor? And come join our open meetings.

In this week’s Fridayblog, we celebrate getting through all the SoPNs for candidate data; launch a new approach to adding useful data for voters; and we’ve...

We collated all the local election results! And we're having a summer event that you should come to.

Be prepared. Be very prepared. We're looking for great people who can drop everything (or most things) to help in the event of a snap general election.

The closed address database in the UK forces us to into a trade off between openness and accuracy.

We're on the search for the One Widget, plus we publish our lotto fund application and ... a new sprint plan!

We've made our lists, and we've checked them twice.

We want to hear from you if you use our APIs, we get the voice of the people, we have news on funding, and a new data breach policy.

On the day that the GDS registers are shut down, we reflect on the Government’s National Data Strategy and offer 5 suggestions for whatever comes next

It's happening: a general election on 12 December 2019. Here's how you can help.

New administrative areas in the UK are given identifiers. There is an unpredictable lapse of time between the boundary being published and the identifier being...

A new year! We have May 2020's elections in our sights...

Number really did go up.

Another mini-blog while we work on the candidates crowdsourcer, API documentation and finishing a report into people underrepresented in the elections process....

We’re coming to the end of Sprint #3 where we’ve fixed bugs, discovered 28 elections and started on a system to get candidates for them all.

We're looking for a contractor to come help out with the London elections, from February through May 2018. A good chance to get into civic tech! Apply now...

A summary of recent staffing changes at Democracy Club.

Big news from the Electoral Commission's five-year plan.

Where should we advertise our jobs? When should we take down candidate data? Where next for voter ID? What can we steal from America? And other questions!

Jobs, election pilots, and much much more!

One week to go! We’re trying to get democracy on the election radar, glancing at the manifestos, and generally encouraging people to get involved.

Democracy meet-ups in Huddersfield and London, the loss of a Minister, and what should Democracy Club do next?

We wish The Electoral Commission a happy birthday the only way we know how: by thinking about its future effectiveness.

We announce our review of last year's general election, and offer a few insights from Google Analytics, exclusive to our blog readers!

Joe's away this week so we handed the Friday Blog spot over to [Alex](https://twitter.com/pr0bablyfine), one of our volunteers, to talk about his...

The demographics, past electoral histories, and biscuits of GE candidates.

The candidates and parties standing in the 2025 English local elections.

No one in the UK is responsible for the health or security of the UK’s democracy.

A long week’s work results in a vast amount of candidate data for the local elections. But there’s more to do! And what should we do for the European...

Crowdsourcing parties, machine learning, the collapse of democracy — it’s Fridayblog!

The polling stations have closed. The exit poll is published. I expect you’re glued to the TV. But before the results come in, let’s take a moment to look...

Democracy Club's polling station finder allows the BBC to provide its readers with the information they need to vote.

Here are some small things you can do to help make democracy work better for everyone.

Non-partisan voter information organisation, Democracy Club, calls for parties, media and electoral institutions to work together to build a UK-wide polling...

How many ballots will you have?

We put the manic into Aldermanic.

Votes@16 is approaching in Wales- is our voting system ready?

In this week’s blog, we’re looking for someone to help us find more data partners, an update on last week’s blogpost on terms of use, one constituency...

We need your help to find official lists of candidates for the Scottish local elections. Instructions within!

On 2 May, 10,248 candidates are standing for 2,707 council seats across England. Using Democracy Club’s candidate data, it is easy to analyse the candidates...

Democracy Club’s mission is to make this year’s elections more accessible for everyone. Here's how you can get involved!

Mine's a skittle alley. What about yours?

Jobs jobs jobs! And thoughts on better crowdsourcing of candidate data; pitching for chocolate money; doctors for democracy; and more!

A summary of the key dates and information about the upcoming elections in 2 May.

What went well? What didn't? And what did our users think about it all?!

In this week’s blog we’re celebrating progress, learning from the parties we threw in three cities and plugging the National Democracy Awards.

An exclusive & idiosyncratic look at the elections in England, Scotland & Wales.

Our first ‘proper’ board meeting where we discuss The Plan — we’d love your feedback. We’re also chatting open government, pondering party...

We take a look at our database of by-elections, and introduce a new feature.

We're hiring! Again!

The Electoral Commission published its GE report. We're in it. Also some other things.

In this week’s blog, we’re previewing our hosting of the Maker Day at NotWestminster, we meet NextDoor, the local social network, and we’re asking if...

A short history of public information provision in UK electoral law.

It depends which question you're asking.

An overview of why, when and where cancellations occur.

We're now crowdsourcing candidate data for May's elections — join in! Plus a plug for NotWestminster and we want your feedback on our feedback...

In which we review the 4,000 comments left by the users of Where Do I Vote? during the General Election.

A short week as the country limbers up to return to politicsland, here’s an update on by-elections, board members and London as laboratory.

We take a look at the UK's register of political parties: its history, contents, and our plans to improve its accessibility.

The latest party news, finding improvements to getting candidates data, we're full speed ahead on polling locations and we're in a report!

In this week’s blog: voting advice applications, councillors that didn’t resign, and we finally get confirmation of the one combined-authority mayoral...

We re-run 262 councillor scrapers after two months and find that not a lot of unexpected changes happened. This leaves us positive about the maintenance...

ElectionLeaflets.org gets the academic treatment, a sketch of a plan for a general election, getting information on by-election candidates and some other stuff!

We write to John Pullinger the new Chair of The Electoral Commission with our thoughts on how the Commission can provide better information to voters over his...

As a small team, we're always looking for ways we can use automation to do more for less. This week we're looking at some of the bots that keep the...

Having reviewed the last year and workshopped 'what's next', we've now drafted our goals for the year to May 2018. We'd love your...