How do I target candidates during an election?

Note that you must be on our Pro plan to access this feature.

You are able to replace our sitting member dataset with an uploaded candidate data set in all regions where targetting elected representatives by locatoin is supported (Australia, US, UK and Canada).

First prepare your candidate dataset with the following structure and save as a comma delimited CSV.

Once that is created you can create an Email Politician Action.

Uploading your file to your campaign

With your action, select you want to lobby for change, politicians by location, via email, then click Lets go! Do not check using my down data (that selects a different tool, our Search & Email tool which does not use location lookup!)

Select candidates as the members you are targeting, and the 'upload your candidate list' option will appear below the chambers (you still need to choose the chambers you will be filling with your data set. You can only choose one or two when importing candidate data.

Upload the .csv file that you created earlier.

Pro Tip: if you get any errors on import, that will be because the data has been created incorrectly. Please return to your spreadsheet and update it once you have worked out the problem.

Save the action, activate and you’re good to go!