How to Organise a Hustings
Want to make a political impact without standing as a candidate? Organise a hustings and help your local community understand what your candidates represent ahead of an election.
Get Involved in an Upcoming Election
Hustings are an important way to get active in democracy. By asking questions of candidates ahead of an election and gaining their commitment to political pledges, you can influence political priorities for those in elected office. If you’re part of a campaign group, hustings are a great way to have your voices heard and ensure women’s needs and expertise are prioritised in politics.
Our How to Organise a Hustings Toolkit takes you through step by step everything you need to know in order to plan, promote and deliver your own hustings. We give you ideas for how to create an original and compelling event, as well as ensure candidates understand the key issues facing women in your local area today.
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Ensure Your Influence Has Impact
Ahead of your hustings, ensure that the questions or pledges you want to focus on are policy areas that are relevant to the upcoming election. It’s important you know that what you bring to candidates are policy issues that they can change if elected. We’ve given some examples of different policy areas that devolved parliaments (Holyrood or Senedd) are responsible for, in comparison to Westminster or local governments (councils).
Learn What Experts Are Demanding
Read what the women’s and equalities’ sectors are asking candidates to commit to, and see if there’s any questions or pledges you want to include in your hustings event.
See What Hustings are Happening Near You
Our friends at the Democracy Classroom have made a fantastic Hustings Locator that you can use to find any upcoming hustings in your local area. If you are running your own, you can complete the form linked below to have it added to their map, too.
There’s Many Ways to Get Involved in an Election
Whatever effort you make will have an impact. Read through our How to Get Involved in the Election Toolkit to see what other ways you can contribute to democracy today.