Electoral Compass

The Electoral Compass is a voting advice website. Visitors can use the application to discover their position in the political landscape for upcoming elections. Electoral Compass was officially established[1] at the VU Amsterdam on October 23, 2007.

Users are asked to give an opinion on 36 propositions, clustered within 12 issues. The result appears in a spectrum, as a pencil point, between the different political parties or candidates. Visitors can further analyse their political preferences by clicking on the various issues, after which they can compare their position on these different topics with the candidates or parties.[2]

Electoral Compass USA

Electoral Compass USA,[3] developed in cooperation with the Wall Street Journal, was presented on January 2, 2008. Electoral Compass USA provides information about the 2008 US presidential elections. Within 3 weeks 1 million people visited Electoral Compass USA. At the end of the campaign, up to 3.8 million people used the website to obtain information about the candidates.

Israel Election Compass

In collaboration with the Israel Democracy Institute a compass was developed for the Israeli Knesset elections of 2009. Over 40.000 voters visited the website in the first hour after launch alone.[4] Around election day, a total number of 600.000 people visited the compass.

EU Profiler

Together with the European University Institute and the Swiss Smartvote, Electoral Compass is creating the EU Profiler, a voting advice website for the upcoming European Parliament election in 2009.

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Sources

  1. ↑ Electoral Compass: 'Establishment'
  2. ↑ Vu.nl: Kieskompas BV
  3. ↑ Wall Street Journal: 'Welcome to the Electoral Compass'
  4. ↑ Israel Democracy Institute
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