Democracy Club

New feature on WhoCanIVoteFor: boundary reviews for English councils. Our election lookup now tells users in England if their council is undergoing a review, and will display a map of their new ward once the review is complete: democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2026/10...

The UK’s election calendar is confusing and constantly shifting. As the graph shows, no two years are quite the same! Learn more about the UK's electoral cycle in our latest blog: democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2026/09...

Fifteen candidates have been nominated to stand in the Holborn & St. Pancras by-election on 8 October. Browse the full list: whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/pa...

📅 A week to go until the Clacton by-election. We've sourced a photo and other details for 32 of the 34 candidates. Browse here: whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/pa... 🍃 People in the constituency have also uploaded leaflets from 14 candidates to our database: electionleaflets.org/leaflets/ele...

The Electoral Office for Northern Ireland (EONI) is consulting on a new polling station scheme. To help voters understand the new proposed layout, EONI turned to us to build an interactive map of new polling places. More on our blog: democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2026/07...

😍"Thank you. without this we wouldn't know enough about the candidates." - A happy 'Who Can I Vote For?' user in Greater Manchester. 🔍The GM mayoral by-election will be held tomorrow. Voters can find their polling station and list of candidates by entering their postcode at whocanivotefor.co.uk

🗳️ Plenty of by-elections are happening across the UK in July: over 40 council polls as well as the Norfolk PCC and the Mayor of Greater Manchester. Voters can find their ballot on whocanivotefor.co.uk Received any election leaflets in the post? Take a picture and upload them: electionleaflets.org

We're very interested to see the answer to this! We wrote about clause 49 in February: democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2026/02...

We've added the results of the 7 May town and parish council elections to our blog. 70.3% of seats were won by independent candidates and 11.1% by candidates representing political parties. 19% of seats remain unfilled. democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2026/04...

⭐ Greenwich electoral services have published turnout stats for each of their polling districts: www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/sites/defaul... We think all councils should have to do this, and have suggested an amendment to the Representation of the People Bill: bills.parliament.uk/publications...

🐶 Where is the best place in the UK to see #dogsatpollingstations ? 🐕 Possibly Cowal Dog Training Club in Argyll and Bute, which is a polling place today! 🐾 Find your polling station: wheredoivote.co.uk

🗳️ The polls are open! 17,300 polling places are open today across Great Britain. 12,800 in England 2,400 in Scotland 2,100 in Wales Find yours at wheredoivote.co.uk

"There are over 25,000 candidates competing for just 5,000 seats - giving voters an "unprecedented" level of choice in one of the most hotly-contested local elections in history." Our candidate data underpins this Sky News story by @alicjahagopian.bsky.social . news.sky.com/story/local-...

Six days to go until the local and devolved elections! 7 May will be the tenth English local election Democracy Club has covered, which means we've a decade's worth of candidate data to look back on: democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2026/04...

Great explanation - we are also often asked this.

📮 Received any election leaflets in the post recently? 📸 Before recycling, please consider snapping a photo and uploading it to electionleaflets.org. ℹ️ Over 1,000 leaflets have been added to the database this year alone!

Both the Senedd and Scottish Parliament have now dissolved for the upcoming elections - but if you put your postcode into @theyworkforyou.com we're using @democracyclub.org.uk data to tell you more about candidates.

Are you a candidate in the 7 May English local elections? Add yourself to our database and have your profile featured on whocanivotefor.co.uk Are you a party organiser or campaigner? You can add your whole slate of candidates at once! whocanivotefor.co.uk/standing/

Please help us to hear from Councillors about how our local democracy is changing. 💬 ✅ If you’re a Councillor in England, Wales or N Ireland, please take part in our Councillor Survey or Focus Groups. ✅ If you work with cllrs, please share this. How to get involved 👉 https://ow.ly/SfPt50Yo908

🗳️ 📆 The Scottish Parliament, the Senedd Cymru and 136 English councils (5,013 councillors and six mayors) are holding elections on 7 May. 👇 Get all the details from our latest blog. 👇 democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2026/03...

*Representation of the People Bill update* Steve Reed has just announced: 'We will repeal in full the power for government to impose a strategy and policy statement on the Electoral Commission'. A very welcome change. I set out last week why it was needed. constitution-unit.com/2026/02/26/t...

👁️All eyes are on the parliamentary by-election in Gorton and Denton today. Voters in the constituency can find their polling station and candidate list at whocanivotefor.co.uk

We've un-postponed (counter-countermanded?) these elections in our system and will be covering them as usual.

Lovely shoutout to our election leaflets database from Prof. Rob! You can upload leaflets yourself at: electionleaflets.org

Today the UK government has published the Representation of the People Bill. We welcome some measures in the bill and would like others to be improved. Read our press release: electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre...

🕚Eleven candidates have been nominated for the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election on 26 February. View the full list: whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/pa...