Your ward.
Your city.
Your call.
The whole election in one honest place: the races, the records, the receipts. All sourced. You decide.
Barely 1 in 4 Londoners turned out in 2022, so the ones who show up decide the whole city. On October 26, be one of them.
What changed
THE RACE, CITY HALL, AND YOUR BALLOT · NEWEST FIRST
- THE RACEAUGUST 25Candidate profiles have been restructuredTo keep this site accurate, we've moved away from summarizing candidates' platforms in our own words. Each candidate's entry now shows their name, prior election results where relevant, and their answers to our questionnaire, which goes out in the coming days. For the most accurate details on a candidate's platform, visit the campaign site linked on their page.
- THE RACEAUGUST 21The candidate questionnaire goes out after August 24Shortly after the City certifies the candidate list on August 24, every mayoral and ward candidate receives the same questionnaire at their campaign email, and every school-board trustee candidate receives a separate one. Answers are published word for word. The first batch goes up one week after the send, then more as they arrive. More details in the coming days.
- THE RACEAUGUST 21Hold them accountable: three new pagesCan they actually do that? tests the promises you’ll hear against what the job actually controls. How to check City Hall walks through the checks you have between elections: minutes, records requests, delegations. Why is this taking so long? shows where a decision gets stuck and who to push. →
On every ballot
Three jobs. Three choices. You hire all of them on October 26.
When to vote
How to vote: dates, ID, advance polls, in three steps→Why your vote matters: 1 in 4 decided last time→The hard files
Read one, read none, or come back later. You don't need all of these to vote well.
Hold them accountable
What the job controls, how to check City Hall yourself, and where a decision gets stuck.
The receipts
They've had four years. See what they did with them. Built only from the City's own minutes, public filings, and signed statements. Every row links to the primary document.
Your vote counts for more than you think
In London's 2022 election, only 1 in 4 people voted, a historic low. So about 71,000 people chose the mayor and all 14 councillors for a city of 400,000. That's the real story of low turnout: not that your vote counts for less, but that the small group of neighbours who show up decide for everyone who doesn't. Some ward races here came down to a few dozen ballots. It's the government closest to your life (the roads, the water, the buses, what gets built next door) and the one where showing up matters most. City of London Open Data — Election 2022 Voter Turnout Results ↗
WHY YOUR VOTE IS BIGGER THAN YOU THINK →Support this
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