Import the electoral register

The register is the layer everything else sits on: rounds, target lists, leaflet drops and turnout. This guide follows the import from the file your electoral registration officer sends to a searchable register on the map.

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01

Get the file from your electoral registration officer

Ask for the register as CSV, TSV or Excel. Loading it is branch admin work, so you need the right role in your branch first.

02

Upload it and say which area it covers

Open Register, choose Electoral register and drop the file in. Enter the register date and search for the ward, council or constituency it covers. Leave the complete register box ticked for a full list, or untick it for a partial one such as new registrations only, so nobody already on the register is removed by mistake.

03

Map the columns, once

Drag each column from your file onto the matching field. Six fields are required: elector number prefix, elector number, surname, forename, postcode and address line one. Cadrify remembers the mapping, so the next file from the same council arrives already mapped.

04

Let it run and review the result

Files over 2,000 rows import in the background with a progress screen, so you can leave the page. You land on a review screen afterwards, or on match review if the import found possible duplicates against your existing data.

What to check
  • Only branch admins can load a register. Ask an admin to grant the role if the Register tab is missing.
  • If your file's columns look nothing like the expected fields, copy the built-in prompt for an LLM and paste your file's layout into a chatbot to work out the mapping.
  • New electorsElector nounA person entitled to vote who appears on the electoral register at their address.In Cadrify Every elector is a single ongoing record in Cadrify. Door-knock history, score, voting history and contact details all attach to that one person across every register import and every campaign that uses it. load even if map boundaries are not set up yet. Wards and UPRNUPRN nounUnique property reference number. The identifier Ordnance Survey and local authorities give to every addressable location in Britain, from a house to a bin store.In Cadrify Cadrify stores the UPRN against an address wherever the register supplies one and uses it to place that address at its exact coordinates, so the match holds even if the street is renamed.Full definition → boundaries need loading separately before they appear on the map.

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Run the rest of the campaign

Generate a door-knocking round

From a ward boundary to a printed, assignable round in a few minutes.

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Run a leaflet drop

Reuses the ward's existing rounds, so a drop is ready to assign the moment it is created.

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Build a phonebank

Call lists from your own filters, scripts included, every response fed straight back to the record.

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Run polling day and GOTV

Synced stations, a live telling rota and knock-up lists that correct themselves as the day goes on.

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Produce nomination papers

Enter a candidate once, generate every council form, signatures still wet ink.

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Review and match records

New register rows get scored automatically. Only the unclear ones need a person.

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Import postal, proxy and elector changes

Postal, proxy and elector detail updates in seconds, matched on register number, no mapping and no review queue.

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Digitise a paper marked register

Scan, upload and choose who reads the marks, your volunteers or Cadrify's reader with a human check on the rest.

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Bring in a volunteer with a QR code

A one-time QR code opens one task for one volunteer, no account needed, active in under a minute.

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Plan a poster round

Bundle poster and posterboard requests into a round, assign it and watch delivery happen live.

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Run an event

A public sign-up page and a QR check-in screen, with every attendee added to your supporter database.

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Run a fundraiser

A donation page on your own Stripe account. Money goes direct, and Cadrify adds 0.5%.

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Create a petition or action page

Petitions, open letters and forms on a public link, live in minutes, every response added to your supporter database.

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Set up casework

One representative per area, matched by GSS code, and volunteer access gated behind a data-protection tick.

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Build the EC return

Cadrify assembles the return, your agent signs it, and the download is the Commission's own workbook.

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Build a filter and save an audience

Drag and drop a condition tree once, check the count, then save it as a filter or a reusable audience.

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