One Democracy Club (DC) plan for 2016 is to create candidate lists for all 2016 UK elections (much like we did for the 2015 general election (GE2015) with https://yournextmp.com). Last night @ Citizen Beta (Cß), Mark Longair rightly flagged that this is quite (very) ambitious! I realised I have no handle on just how ambitious i.e. how many candidates we’re talking.
The Electoral Commission have a list of upcoming elections: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/elections-and-referendums/upcoming-elections-and-referendums
Below are the numbers I’ve found so far for each.
- Previous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election,_2011
- Next: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election,_2016
218 candidates stood in 2011.
- Previous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_for_Wales_election,_2011
- Next: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_for_Wales_election,_2016
184 + 261 = 445 candidates stood in 2011.
- Previous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_election,_2011
- Next: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_election,_2016
129 members (so perhaps 650 candidates?)
- Previous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Assembly_election,_2012
- Next: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Assembly_election,_2016
88 + 123 = 211 candidates stood in 2012.
NB Wikipedia already has names of 40 + 58 = 98 candidates
- Previous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_mayoral_election,_2012
- Next: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_mayoral_election,_2016
Wikipedia lists 7 candidates from 2012. Unless I am misreading, it appears to suggest there will be “dozens” of independent candidates in 2016?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_local_elections,_2016
Umm… Lots and lots. It’s complicated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_local_elections,_2016#Mayoral_elections
Elections happening in: Bristol, Liverpool, Salford.
- Previous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_and_Wales_police_and_crime_commissioner_elections,_2012
- Next: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_and_Wales_police_and_crime_commissioner_elections,_2016
192 candidates stood in 2012.