Privacy-Preserving Electorate Lookup

About this page

What this does

Privacy-Preserving Electorate Lookup (P-PEL), asks for the least information needed to help someone find their federal and/or state electorate. Around 75% of Australian postcodes resolve to a single federal electorate. So, for most of Australia, that’s all you need. If you see your electorate listed and want to select it, then go ahead. It will remove all the other possibilities.

What this doesn’t do

Anything other than finding the right electorate for the right address. This is the first step in providing a useful tool. We are working to reduce barriers to participation in democracy. It is a demonstration of capability.

What do we mean by “privacy-preserving”?

We intentionally built this to ask for the least identifying data possible to give you the most accurate result. In addition, P-PEL runs on your device and does not send any of your address or electorate information to Democracy Developers. You can read the source code or a description of the lookup structure.