Plain English guide
How the UK Political Party Support Tracker Works
Who You With? helps track UK political party support by area. It records one current political preference, matches it to the correct constituency, council area and ward, and publishes only grouped anonymous local results when enough verified or assisted people take part.
How Political Party Support Is Tracked
Who You With? is built to track political party support by area, not harvest people.
It is not designed to create a named voter database, sell personal data, or publish who you are. It is designed to verify one current political preference, place that entry into the right local areas, and show anonymous public support totals once there is enough data.
- Email is used for secure sign-in, updates and deletion.
- Postcode is used to identify your political and council areas.
- Your political preference is counted in grouped support totals, not shown as an individual public record.
The simple promise: collect as little as possible, protect what is needed, and publish only anonymous public totals.
Who You With? is registered with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office for data protection purposes.
ICO registration number: ZC136486
How to Record Your Political Preference
This is the simplest way to understand how the UK political party support tracker works from start to finish.
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Enter your email
You enter your email address and the site sends you a secure sign-in link.
Why: this helps stop spam, repeat fake entries and gives you a way back in to update or delete your entry.
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Confirm your area
You enter your postcode so the system can work out your nation, region, constituency, council area, county division and ward.
Why: the important thing is the political area, not your house or street.
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Choose your current political preference
You choose your current political party preference, independent choice or non-voting option. That becomes your one current entry.
Why: the project is about showing where verified participants currently stand, not storing a long personal profile.
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Your preference counts in grouped support totals
Your entry contributes to aggregate political party support results by area. Public pages show totals and percentages, not your individual record.
Why: people should be able to be counted without being publicly identified.
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You can come back later
If your view changes, you can sign back in and update your answer. You can also refresh an unchanged entry, switch reminders on or off, or delete it.
Why: the aim is one current answer, not an out-of-date record hanging around forever.
What the Political Support Tracker Collects and What It Does Not
The page should answer two basic questions quickly: what do you need from me? and what are you not asking for?
What we ask for
- Email addressUsed for secure sign-in, updates, deletion and anti-abuse controls.
- PostcodeUsed to match your entry to the correct political and council areas.
- Political preferenceUsed to count UK political party support in anonymous grouped totals.
- Basic security signalsUsed to reduce spam, bots, repeat misuse and manipulation.
What we do not need
- Your full nameNot needed to count one current entry.
- Your full addressThe area matters, not your house or flat number.
- Phone number or photo IDNot needed for this tracker.
- A social-media profile, employer or detailed personal profileThis project is not built around personal profiling.
What Stays Private and What Political Results Can Show
Privacy-first only works if the boundary is clear.
Stays private
- Your email address.
- Your postcode.
- Your individual entry record.
- Your sign-in and account-control actions.
Can be shown publicly
- Anonymous totals and percentages.
- Grouped political party support results by nation, region, constituency, council area, county division or ward.
- Only where there are enough entries to show public results safely.
Who You With? is best described as privacy-first and privacy-separated. It uses some information to verify and place political preference entries correctly, but it does not publicly publish individual records.
How long an entry lasts
Your entry is not meant to count forever without review. The system is designed to keep results current.
24 months
Your entry counts in public grouped results for 24 months from the last time you save or update it.
12 months
After the active period, the entry stops counting publicly but can still be refreshed during the further 12 months recovery period.
36 months
If the entry is not refreshed, it is deleted after 36 months from the latest save or update.
Optional reminder emails
Reminder emails are optional and off by default. If you switch them on, they are used only to warn you before your entry stops counting. They do not include your political answer, postcode, ward, constituency or council area.
Why Some Local Political Party Support Results Are Hidden at First
Local results are the point of the project, but they need handling carefully.
Why protect small numbers?
If only a tiny number of people have taken part in a small area, detailed results could make it easier for others to guess who those people might be.
What happens instead?
Some local political party support breakdowns stay hidden or limited until enough people have taken part. That protects participants and stops tiny counts being treated as a meaningful local trend.
How This Political Party Support Tracker Differs from Traditional Polling
Who You With? is not trying to pretend it is something it is not.
Traditional polling
- Usually relies on selected samples or panels.
- Often uses weighting and private methodology.
- Normally reports estimates about wider opinion.
Who You With?
- Lets verified participants take part directly.
- Shows grouped totals openly by area where possible.
- Acts as a live political preference tracker, not an election forecast.
The simple promise
Political party support should not be locked away in private polling panels or turned into unnecessary personal profiles.
Who You With? collects as little as possible, uses that information for a narrow purpose, and publishes anonymous public totals rather than individual records.