Election information and polling station finder

We provide a year-round election lookup and polling station finder, delivered in partnership with Democracy Club Community Interest Company (Company number: 09461226). This tool helps people quickly find out which elections are taking place in their area, providing details of their polling station and local council addresses. The Electoral Commission and Democracy Club are the “data controllers” of your personal data. This means that the Electoral Commission and Democracy Club decide what your personal data is used for, and the ways in which it is processed. 

As data controllers, the Electoral Commission and Democracy Club have the responsibility to comply with, and to demonstrate compliance with, data protection law.

We recommend referring to the Democracy Club’s privacy policy for more information on how they will process your personal data.    

We process personal data to support the delivery of our statutory functions, in particular the duty to promote public awareness of the electoral system under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.

Our election lookup and polling station finder provides information to users based on their postcode. This data is not retained by the Electoral Commission but is collected by Democracy Club. Postcodes are stored anonymously, to produce important statistics about usage of the service in different areas of the UK. This data helps the Electoral Commission and Democracy Club to improve the service we offer. We recommend referring to the Democracy Club’s privacy policy for more information on how they will process your personal data.    

We also make election information, polling station locations and local council addresses available to other organisations via our Electoral Commission API and lookup widget. When users access data via organisations using our API or lookup widget, the request to our API includes the user’s postcode. This data is not retained by the Electoral Commission but is collected by Democracy Club. Postcodes are stored anonymously, to produce important statistics about usage of the service in different areas of the UK. This data helps the Electoral Commission and Democracy to improve the service we offer. We recommend referring to the Democracy Club’s privacy policy for more information on how they will process your personal data. 

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