Project date: 2 June 2025
Project Link: https://www.epetitions.uk/
Problem Addressed
E-petitions are good for democracy because they let people publicly signal what they care about but we under-use them by focusing on national totals. Without constituency filtering and relative salience, we miss local hotspots, can’t compare areas fairly, and act too late.
Approach & Implementation
Volunteers at Campaign Lab Hack nights adressed this challenge by working to build a new tool that resolves this problem. They used the data from the Epetitions website and built a tool that breaks it down by constituency. Then they introduced a salience tracker and an issue breakdown to help find out what citizens care about the most.
Useful for:
Local campaigers or representatives looking to understand their communities.
Journalists and Democracy advocates looking to understand how people really feel.