https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/
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.
See INSTALL.md
You can find a list of known issues to work on here:
This codebase was originally forked from mysociety/yournextrepresentative We no longer track the upstream but we thank mySociety for their work on the project which we have been able to build on.
v0.9 is legacy code and is now frozen. v1.0 is currently in alpha. We plan on publishing a v1 API once we have some more feedback from users and we think it’s stable enough.
YNR uses pypandoc (which relies on pandoc) to convert SOPN documents to PDF, as needed, to be parsed.
To install pandoc, visit this page and follow the instructions for you operating system:
https://pandoc.org/installing.html
Once pandoc is installed
Install pypandoc (or via requirements.txt):
pip install pandoc
If pypandoc does not install via pip, visit https://pypi.org/project/pypandoc/ for further instructions.
Sentry is used to report errors in production. We have added a url for sentry-debug to the urls.py file. This is to allow us verify that Sentry is configured correctly and working in production.
# Pre-election Tasks
# Enable Candidate Leaderboard
The candidate leaderboard is a way of showing the most active candidates on the site. It is a way of encouraging volunteers to add more information about candidates and elections.
We take a slice of edits in YNR and assign them to a election leaderboard.
This is defined here: https://github.com/DemocracyClub/yournextrepresentative/blob/master/ynr/apps/candidates/views/mixins.py#L20
We can modify the old value to reflect the current election. Change, PR, merge, [currently Sym needs to deploy]
If this is a General Election, the parliamentary candidates can be imported using a google sheet csv url with `python manage candidatebot_import_next_ppcs --sheet-url SHEET_URL`