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.
On every ballot
Three jobs. Three choices. You hire all of them on October 26.
What changed
THE RACE, CITY HALL, AND YOUR BALLOT · NEWEST FIRST
- THE RACESEPTEMBER 10The first questionnaire answers are upThe first batch of answers is posted on each candidate's page, word for word and dated, next to every other candidate's. A candidate who answered carries a marigold Questionnaire button on their entry; one who has not still says so. The bar below tracks how much of the field is on the record and moves with every answer posted. There is no deadline. Answers go up as they arrive, right through election day, so a candidate you are waiting on can still show up here. →
- THE RACESEPTEMBER 8Every candidate meeting, on one pageA new meetings page lists every all-candidates meeting and mayoral debate announced so far, from any organizer, in date order: the Urban League's 14 ward meetings, two Rotary Club forums including a public mayoral one on September 29, and the London Abused Women's Centre mayoral debate on October 15. Each row says who can attend, whether to register, and links to the organizer. Two ward listings were corrected against the Urban League's list in the same pass: Ward 11 is now Saturday, September 19 at 1:00pm, and Ward 14 is at Chalmers Presbyterian Church on Pond Mills Road, not Laurier. The questionnaire page now also points to the other questionnaires candidates were sent. →
- 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.
When to vote
Meet the candidates: every ward meeting and mayoral debate, Sept. 9 to Oct. 15→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 ↗
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