---
title: Democracy Club
type: civic-tech
status: active
country: GB
website: https://democracyclub.org.uk
logo: /assets/org-logos/democracy-club.svg
contact:
  checked: 2026-07-30
  email: hello@democracyclub.org.uk
  source: https://democracyclub.org.uk/contact
summary: A UK civic tech nonprofit building free, open data infrastructure for elections
  — candidate databases, polling place finders, and ward boundary data used by the
  BBC, The Guardian, and local councils.
concepts:
- democracy-tools
- e-government
- representative-democracy
location:
  latitude: 52.4862
  longitude: -1.8904
  name: Birmingham, UK
news_page: https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/
rss_feed: https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/feed/
related_orgs:
- mysociety
events:
- date: '2010-01-01'
  title: Origins as a volunteer effort collecting candidate information for the 2010
    UK general election, working with mySociety
  url: https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/new-radicals-2016/democracy-club/
  quote: Sym Roe was a volunteer for the mySociety enterprise during the run up to
    the 2010 general election, working to increase the amount of information available
    online about the candidates.
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-10'
  notable: false
- date: '2015-01-01'
  title: Registered as a Community Interest Company and crowdsourced the most comprehensive
    UK election-candidate database to date, used by over a million people
  url: https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/new-radicals-2016/democracy-club/
  quote: crowdsourcing the most comprehensive and accurate database of candidates
    in recent electoral history
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-10'
  notable: true
activity:
  rss:
    checked: 2026-08-17
    date: 2026-07-31
    note: 'Latest post: Mapping Northern Ireland''s proposed polling places'
    url: https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2026/07/31/mapping-northern-irelands-proposed-polling-places/
  scrape:
    date: 2026-07-31
    note: Latest news page scraped
    url: https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/
    checked: 2026-08-17
last_checked: '2026-06-15'
---

Democracy Club is a UK nonprofit (registered charity) that builds open infrastructure for elections. Founded in 2015, it operates as a small paid team supported by a large volunteer community who collectively gather, clean, and maintain data about UK elections.

Its core products:

- **WhoCanIVoteFor** — tells voters which candidates are standing in their constituency and provides candidate information.
- **WhereDoIVote** — polling place finder, used by councils and media during elections.
- **Every Election** — open database of every UK election, past and upcoming, with machine-readable boundaries and results.
- **Candidates** — crowdsourced database of election candidates, with social media profiles and statements.

During UK general elections, Democracy Club's data powers electoral lookups on the BBC, The Guardian, and hundreds of local council websites. The datasets are freely available under open licences.

The organisation occupies a gap: official electoral data in the UK is fragmented across hundreds of local authorities with no central machine-readable source. Democracy Club does the aggregation work and releases it publicly.

## Links

- Website: [democracyclub.org.uk](https://democracyclub.org.uk)
- Source code: [github.com/DemocracyClub](https://github.com/DemocracyClub)

## See also

- [E-Government](../concepts/e-government.md)
- [Representative Democracy](../concepts/representative-democracy.md)
- [mySociety](mysociety.md)