About hustings.com

hustings.com is an online platform to help voters find out about the election candidates and political parties that want their vote.

hustings.com is free and it is open to all candidates and parties that are legally able to run.

hustings.com has been set up and funded by James Evans (based in London) and William Carey (based in Oxford).

For the 2010 General Election hustings.com will be covering the key marginal and target constituencies and any others that we have time to put up. We will do our best to put up any other constituency and candidate that want to be on the site.

To find your constituency just click on the Constituencies tab on the homepage or use the search box on the homepage. Let us know if you cannot find your constituency and we will put it up for you! If you want to show your support for a candidate or ask candidates a question, then just sign up as a member from the homepage.

If you are a candidate and want to appear on the site, you can sign up from the homepage or just send an email to james.evans@hustings.com and we will do it for you!

hustings.com provides you with links to the websites of all the major political parties including all with elected representation in the United Kingdom House of Commons, the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly or the European Parliament. To see this list, click here.

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Hustings: a word originating from Old Norse husthing, from hus (house) and thing (assembly), and subsequently applied to open-air meetings connected with parliamentary elections.

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"It is true that from the moment when a general election was over, every returned man who had been raving on hustings because it hadn't been done, and who had been asking the friends of the honourable gentleman in the opposite interest on pain of impeachment to tell him why it hadn't been done, and who had been asserting that it must be done, and who had been pledging himself that it should be done, began to devise, How it was not to be done."
(Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit)