More than 60,000 people use My Election Map to beat Reform at May elections

More than 60,000 people have now used My Election Map. It’s a new digital tool directing progressive activists to their nearest campaign events to support progressive candidates at the upcoming elections on 7 May.

Youth movement Green New Deal Rising has launched My Election Map. It features campaign events for cross party candidates who have pledged their support for wealth taxes on the super-rich, migrant and trans rights, bold climate action and liberation for Palestine.

Modelled on previous tools like My Nearest Marginal, My Election Map aims to maximise left victories at the May elections, applying pressure to the current government from its left flank and strengthening efforts to provide a radical left alternative to Reform UK.

By 29 April, more than 63,300 people had used My Election Map to find nearby events to campaign for cross-party progressive candidates and beat Reform. The group is hoping tens of thousands more will use the tool to find nearby events to support get out the vote efforts in the final days of the campaign, and on polling day on 7 May.

Polls show progressives Plaid Cymru could win power in Wales and the Greens may take control of several key London councils This would force the government to confront profound questions about the electoral threat it faces to its left.

My Election Map can mobilise volunteers

Hannah Martin, co-director of Green New Deal Rising, said:

Progressives like Hannah Spencer and Lindsay Whittle beat Reform not just because they were fantastic candidates, but also because hundreds if not thousands of volunteers refused to give in to pessimism and gave up their time to knock on doors, have real conversations and counter the far right’s dark vision with one of hope.

My Election Map offers people across the UK the chance to do the same at these crucial elections on Thursday 7 May. We can elect hundreds of inspiring cross-party progressives, limit Reform’s success and show this government that communities across the UK are crying out for a bold, hopeful alternative to the far right – not more pandering to their agenda.

My Election Map has benefitted from a number of high profile endorsements, including from Hannah Spencer MP, Nadia Sawahla, Owen Jones, Jen Brister, and more.

My Election Map forms one strand of Green New Deal Rising’s May election campaigning. The group has also conducted a number of high-profile disruptions of Nigel Farage, as well as Shabana Mahmood. The home secretary falsely described the disruptor, a person of colour with a migrant background, as a “white liberal” and told them to “fuck off”.

As part of the roll out of My Election Map, Green New Deal Rising has been coordinating mass youth canvasses for progressives in strategic target seats.

This weekend, more than 60 young people from across the UK travelled to Cardiff, campaigning for a ‘progressive alliance to stop Reform’. They campaigned for Plaid Cymru’s Zaynub Akbar in Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf and the Green Party’s Tessa Marshall in Caerdydd Penarth.

Green New Deal Rising is a youth movement which campaigns for a Green New Deal in the UK. You can sign up to their mailing list to get involved here.

Featured image via Green New Deal Rising