Election candidate target databases

As part of your subscription to our Advocacy tools, we also provide candidate databases for selected data sets, which you can use with Email-to-Target pages.

Before using a candidate database…

We strongly recommend that you use a custom envelope when sending to candidate targets; delivery may be affected. Please check this article on how to do this, or talk to support.

Which candidate databases are provided?

We provide:

• UK Westminster MP candidates

• UK Devolved nations candidates (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland)

  • As of 25th February, the Scottish and Welsh May 2026 election candidate database is released. See below for more information. Please let support know you would like this added to your account

• Canadian Federal Election candidates

• Canadian Provincial Election candidates

Please note:

• UK Mayoral candidates – these should be used as custom contacts rather than a postcode-matched database. Since these are small databases, we recommend collecting the information from online sources. Please contact support if you need help setting the database up

2026 Scotland and Wales elections

We are updating the MSP/MS/MLA/England MP target database. We will let you know once this is complete. As it stands, you should not use this database for live actions, as it contains targets from before the elections.

When are these released?

We would expect to provide a working database roughly 3 months before an election, with coverage increasing each week after it is made available. If an election is called earlier than the scheduled date (for example, a snap election), we will begin building the database immediately. We will provide an ongoing report showing how many candidates are currently on the list, so you can decide when to launch your campaign.

While this takes place, we will clear the actual target databases (we will mark this as DO NOT USE) since they would otherwise contain out-of-date data.

Once the election is over and candidates are elected, we update the actual databases for you to use with the new targets and close the candidate database. We would have the new database ready for you a couple of days after the results are published on official websites. For a rough guide, after the election ends, you should expect the database to be ready:

• UK – within a week for national elections, or over a month after the council elections. 

• USA – within two weeks of candidates being sworn in

• Canada – a number of weeks, usually over a month.

• Australia – a number of weeks, usually over a month. We will let you know once the databases have been updated after the recent Australian elections.