diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6d52d9bd..5ca4d25e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -52,9 +52,6 @@ If you want to download the notes yourself with python:
 # Fetch notes
 poetry run python -m x_notes
 
-# Fetch a big list of GE2024 candidate twitter handles
-poetry run python -m x_notes.fetch_candidates
-
 # Optional: fetch tweets
 poetry run python -m x_notes.fetch_tweets
 ```
diff --git a/x_notes/fetch_candidates.py b/x_notes/fetch_candidates.py
deleted file mode 100644
index dab3337f..00000000
--- a/x_notes/fetch_candidates.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-import csv
-import json
-from io import StringIO
-
-import requests
-
-dc_csv = "https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/data/export_csv/"
-params = {
-    "election_id": "parl.2024-07-04",
-    "has_twitter_username": "yes",
-    "extra_fields": "twitter_username",
-    "format": "csv",
-}
-
-r = requests.get(dc_csv, params=params, stream=True)
-data = list(csv.DictReader(StringIO(r.text)))
-handles = [row["twitter_username"].replace('"', "").lower() for row in data]
-
-with open("output/_data/ge2024-candidates.json", "w") as fh:
-    json.dump(handles, fh)