Data Deep Dive – Relational Campaigning Collapses in 2024 GE
Date: 28 April 2025 The data nerds among you are probably already aware that the British Election Study’s Wave 29 Online Panel Data is out. Our research team took a look through the data to see what it could tell us about the prominence of relational campaigning in the latest election, and the results were […]
The Truth About Voter Turnout: What Can We Actually Learn From Over 100 Voter Turnout Experiments?
At Campaign Lab’s first academic series session, LSE’s Florian Foos shared findings from a major analysis of 122 GOTV experiments, revealing that campaigns are most effective when targeting middle-propensity voters (40–60% likelihood of voting). While door-to-door canvassing is highly effective in the US, results are mixed in Europe, and text messaging shows strong promise despite data challenges. The session underscored the need for more UK-specific research to build an evidence-based approach to campaigning.
Here’s 5 Things You Should Know About Relational Campaigning
VoteRev’s Evie Monnington-Taylor, shares key lessons for effective relational campaigning were shared: be personal and natural in communications, ensure mobilisers follow through, time messages carefully, use technology to streamline efforts, and target hard-to-reach audiences through trusted relationships.
Open Council Datasets
This site contains open council data including: UK Councillors by Year, 50 Years+ of GB Council Compositions and a List of UK Parties.
Are Local Framings of Issues on Mailers More Effective Than National Framings in Increasing Turnout?
A/B RCT experiment testing if issues with local framing work better than national framing.
Local Council Candidate Election Data
DATASET: Local Council Candidate Election Data Project date: 1 June 2024 Project link: https://democracyclub.org.uk/data_apis/data/ These file downloads contain a row for each candidate per election. The candidate’s name and party are drawn from the official nomination papers. All other information is added by Democracy Club or our volunteers. This additional information includes geographic data, contact details, […]
SMS Vote Reminder
A service to help people vote in elections by texting them a reminder to vote with the address of their polling station and a reminder to bring voter ID.