Election Campaign

So now you are a candidate, and your name will be on the ballot!

Campaigning in an election is hard work and involves contacting voters in the constituency and asking for their vote, their money and their time. The work of the campaign starts right from the date of the nomination and involves one simple effort: identifying supporters, and (on Election Day), getting them out to vote for you!

The candidate is the main ingredient of the campaign, and is the person who knocks on the most doors and makes the most phone calls of anyone in the campaign.

Every candidate needs a team of volunteers around them to help manage all of the work of the campaign. The team includes many people, but the core are the candidate; the campaign manager (in over-all charge of the campaign); the fund-raising chair; the volunteer coordinator; the operations chair and the official agent (who minds the budget and spending rules).

From the time you are nominated as a candidate you will spend part of every week working on the election. As the election gets closer, you will do more and more campaigning until you are doing it 6-days a week in the four or five weeks before Election Day.

Elections are fun, exhausting, stressful and very fulfilling!