Please note - you will need to bring a laptop to this event

Thousands of activists across the UK volunteer their time and energy for electoral campaigns every year. Year in, year out, we use the same campaigning methods and tools we always have, because we think they work.

But there has never been any contemporary analysis or studies undertaken to assess the impact or value of electoral campaigning methods in the UK.

So, if no one else has done this, then maybe it’s about time we started?

We’re planning to build a repository of publicly available data and develop a model to better understand the 2018 Local Elections and identify which results bucked the national political and demographic trends. These are areas in which local campaigning may have actually made a difference and where we can start learning and testing.

This is about developing an evidence-based approach to campaigning.

But we need your help.

To create these insights we need to identify as much publicly available demographic and political data sources as possible.

So if you’re interested in chipping in and developing a new data-driven approach to understand what actually goes on in elections and campaigning, bring your laptop and join us for an evening of data gathering where we’ll be asking:

- What existing data sources are already structured at a ward level?

- How can we transform data that is not at a ward level into data that is?

- What data is missing and how can we use Parliamentary Questions and FOIs to access it?

You do not need to know how to code to attend and help.

You will however need to bring a laptop to this event.

Everyone welcome – beer, soft drinks and pizza will be provided!

Supported by

Newspeak House - nwspk.com

Labour Together - labourtogether.co.uk