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a campaign to encourage voters to register\n* Jess Garland, the Electoral Reform Society (ERS)\n* Michael Sani, campaign group Bite The Ballot\n\n## Visualisation\n\n* Bar chart: lowest turnouts in English local elections 2018\n* Bar chart: highest turnouts in English local elections 2018\n* Column chart: Turnout in English council elections 2007-2018\n* Infographic: Local elections 2019\n\n## Related stories\n\n* You can find all election-related stories from the data unit [tagged 'elections' on GitHub](https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Aelections+org%3ABBC-Data-Unit\u0026type=Repositories)\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbbc-data-unit%2Fcouncil-elections-2019","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fbbc-data-unit%2Fcouncil-elections-2019","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbbc-data-unit%2Fcouncil-elections-2019/lists"}