https://github.com/mysociety/yournextrepresentative

A website for crowd-sourcing structured election candidate data
https://github.com/mysociety/yournextrepresentative

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A website for crowd-sourcing structured election candidate data

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mysociety/yournextrepresentative
• Owner: mysociety
• License: agpl-3.0
• Archived: true
• Created: 2014-09-10T07:32:13.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-01-06T18:51:54.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-09T15:04:59.442Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: civic-tech, data, elections, politics
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/
• Size: 8.4 MB
• Stars: 56
• Watchers: 22
• Forks: 23
• Open Issues: 232
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

          
# A website for crowd-sourcing structured election candidate data

YourNextRepresentative is a open source platform for

crowd-sourcing information about candidates for political office

and making it available as open data to anyone.

The core data that YourNextRepresentative collects includes who

is standing, what party they’re standing for, their contact

details, their social media accounts etc. The software requires

that each change is submitted with a source, so that the

collected information can be independently checked.

This codebase was used for

[YourNextMP](https://edit.yournextmp.com) in the UK for the 2015

General Election, and has also been reused in Argentina, Burkina

Faso, St Paul (Minnesota) and Costa Rica.

The codebase is internationalized; if you want to help to

translate the project into a new language, we use

[Transifex to allow anyone to contribute translations](https://www.transifex.com/mysociety/yournextmp/).

## Known Bugs

You can find a list of known issues to work on here:

* https://github.com/mysociety/yournextrepresentative/issues

These are prioritized in Waffle:

* https://waffle.io/mysociety/yournextrepresentative

# What should I read next?

The following other documentation files may be of use to you,

depending on what you're trying to do:

* [A guide to setting up YourNextRepresentative for a new country](docs/new-instance.md)

  This is a work-in-progress, describing what's involved in

  setting up YourNextRepresentative in a new country.

* [Notes on setting up a dev version of YourNextMP with vagrant](docs/ynmp-vagrant.md)

  This was created to make it easy for developers and designers

  to get started working on YourNextMP (the UK site), and may be

  still be of some use.