With virtually all transport and cycling-related policy now a Scottish rather than a UK responsibility we are not asking individual candidates for statements or holding a hustings for the UK General Election. However, as always, we will give any useful information as it becomes available. Please let us know of hustings or other relevant events/ material.
Election Hustings & relevant events in Edinburgh, Lothians + some Scotland-wide
| Constituency /Area (if relevant) | Date | Time | Where | Notes/ Event type |
| Lothian East | June 12 | 1930 | Dunbar Parish Church | Hustings |
| Register to vote (if you are not registered) Closing date… | June 18 | 2359 | www.gov.uk/register-to-vote | Action now! |
| Edinburgh East & Musselburgh | June 18 | 1900-2030 | 70 Promenade, Portobello EH15 2DX | Hustings by Surfers against Sewage |
| Lothian East | June 18 | 1930 | St Andrew Blackadder Church, North Berwick | Hustings |
| All constituencies | June 18 | 1900-2100 | Augustine United Church | Hustings on Mental Health |
| Apply for postal vote Closing date & time… | June 19 | 1700 | mygov.scot/apply-postal-vote | Action now! |
| Edinburgh South | June 20 | 1930 | Greenbank Parish Church | Hustings |
| Edinburgh West | June 20 | 1930-2030 | Dalmeny and Queensferry Parish Church EH30 9NS | Hustings then coffee! |
| Midlothian | June 20 | 1930-2100 | 21 Eskdaill Court, Dalkeith | Hustings |
| Livingston | June 21 | 1930 | Livingston United Parish Church | Hustings |
| Edinburgh North & Leith | June 24 | 1930-2130 | Broughton St Mary’s Church, Bellevue Cres | Hustings |
| Edinburgh East & Musselburgh | June 24 | 1930 | Portobello Town Hall | Hustings |
| Edinburgh East & Musselburgh | June 25 | 1400-1530 | CANCELLED Southside Community Centre | Hustings |
| Lothian East | June 25 | 1930-2130 | Humbie Village Hall | Hustings |
| All constituencies | June 28 | 1800-1930 | Augustine United Church, Geo IV Bridge EH1 1EL | Climate Hustings |
| Election Day | July 4 | all day | ID needed if voting in person (not if postal) | Don’t do a Boris, remember your ID! |
Party websites and Manifesto links
Relevant manifesto analyses – UK manifestos
- Note that the Scotland 2024 General Election manifestos do not cover active travel, as this is wholly devolved to the Scottish Parliament. Indeed, the word ‘cycling’ does not appear in the Scottish Conservative, Labour or SNP 2024 manifestos, and only in passing in the Lib Dem and Green. To find current Scotland active travel party policies, the 2021 Scottish Parliament manifestos still apply – see our analysis, and links to those manifestos, here.
- Cambridge Cycling Campaign – active travel policies from the UK GE2024 party manifestos
- Local Transport Today – opinion piece on transport in the UK manifestos, from sustainable transport perspective, by Jonathan Bray
- FOE (E&W) manifesto analysis & scoring
- Transport Action Network summary & commentary on each manifesto re transport
- CiTTi magazine [City Transport & Traffic Innovation mag] – summarises and briefly compares Con, Lab, LibDem, Green transport policies
| Party | Website UK | Website Scotland | Manifesto(s) |
| Conservative | www.conservatives.com | www.scottishconservatives.com | UK / Scotland |
| Green | greenparty.org.uk [England & Wales] | greens.scot | E&W / Scotland |
| Labour | labour.org.uk | scottishlabour.org.uk | UK / Scotland |
| LibDem | www.libdems.org.uk | scotlibdems.org.uk | UK / Scotland |
| Reform UK | www.reformparty.uk | reformparty.uk/scotland-region | UK |
| SNP | n/a | www.snp.org | Scotland |
Find your candidates
Type in your postcode on the BBC election site, to find your constituency and all the candidates standing in General Election 2024
We do not endorse candidates. The choice is yours.
Transport & Environment election pages
- Cycling UK, including option to email your candidates
- United for People, Climate and Nature (130 organisations, under the Climate Coalition), including option to email your candidates
- Campaign for Better Transport (E&W parallel to Transform Scotland) – an excellent transport manifesto
- RoadPeace – manifesto for road casualty reduction
- Stop Climate Chaos Scotland
- Road Danger Reduction Forum – manifesto
Community information websites
There is now a vast amount of community information made available by skilled people, often volunteers, working together in organisations such as My Society, Democracy Club and Who Targets Me – funded in whole or part by voluntary donations. Their political online tools, most of which you use by entering your postcode, include…
- WhoCanIVoteFor See your candidates, then click on each for a mass of publicly available background information [local by-elections are also listed]
- SwapMyVote Is your preferred party a no-hoper in your seat? Swap your vote with someone where it could really count.
- WhereDoIVote How to find your polling station
- ElectionLeaflets A massive resource of election leaflets, used for research and to hold those elected to account. – You can help by photoing/scanning and uploading any that you receive
- WhoTargetsMe? A browser extension to crowdsource political adverts
- TheyWorkForYou Click on your MP or MSP, and find publicly available info about their activities [Obviously during an election period MPs become ‘former MPs’ but, remarkably, during election night the new MP names are entered into the site almost in real time!]
- WriteToThem Find and email any of your elected representatives, from councillors to MEPs.
Election pages from local Councils
Including registering to vote, how to be a candidate, full lists of local candidates, important dates, etc, etc…
Other useful sites
- Sustrans UK – election manifesto
- BBC election website – loads of info!
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