Voting Help
Submitted 06/09/2009 by Terence Eden

During an election, there should be a central place to see
-My constituency (boundary data)
-My ward
-The authority running the election
-How I register to vote
-Who is standing for the election
-Where my polling station is

All of the data is available - but it's held across different departments, separate websites, in PDFs, and sometimes behind paywalls (Ordnance Survey).

I've built a demo using some of the available data at http://voteuk.shkspr.mobi/

I'd really like an authoritative API - to much is out of date or disparate.

Tags: API, election, vote

Comments (1) :

Nice Demo

Thanks Terence for submitting your idea and for the protoype you built.I didn't know the Doctor was standing for my local constituency, I would definitely vote for the Time Lord party in that case!

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