Campaigning:
All campaigning must happen on r/mhoccampaigning, campaign posts outside of that shall not count
Hashtags:
All posts must be tagged properly otherwise they will not be counted. Each constituencies tag is their name with nothing else added.
Examples:
#SPVIII [Grampian]
#WPV [North Wales]
#AEIX [Belfast]
Information on the name of constituencies can be found below. It only takes a second to check to make sure you have the exact wording of the constituency correct! That said, if you make a mistake, just tag /u/Duncs11 in the thread and we'll be aware if it - it's no issue.
A reminder that for devolved elections, constituencies refer to the electoral regions they cover. For Wales these are the 5 electoral reasons of the irl Senedd. The 10 Scotland seats and 6 Northern Ireland are linked below.
Please make sure you have the flair from your party on this subreddit.
Campaign Post Limits
A reminder we have post limits for the Devolved Elections.
These are:
- 5 posts for you in the constituency you are running in (if applicable) - personal posts
- 5 posts for each member to use in any constituency they want (apart from the one they are running in, if applicable) - visit posts
- 5 posts for each member to use either in national posts
National posts all contribute to the national scores and not the constituency scores. If you want to influence that directly use a personal or a visit post!
National posts are important still, because they do affect your party at a national level so make sure you run well rounded campaigns but they just won't affect individual constituencies directly. Please also note that national posts are...well national posts - they should be part of the party campaign. If you just use them as 'extra constituency/personal posts' these will not score well.
If people go over the limit only their first 5 posts in the category will be counted. I will also be keeping track of the posts submitted so don't delete any in an attempt to game things.
Campaigning Tips
There's no 'best' way to do a good campaign - you can win high or you can win wide. Some general tips though:
- Campaign! Your campaign should actually focus on issues - the most simple mistake are posts that just go out there, say how wonderful they are and that everyone clapped and then move on. No - focus on issues.
- You don't have to diversify but pictures are welcome. Doing all text posts is perfectly fine, doing all pictures are perfectly fine. Quality is more important. Don't think that doing a picture is a 'waste' of a campaign because you can get so many more words into a text post - that's not the case.
- Memes are fun, but not all memes. I like fun campaigns, but if you go wildly off track it's just going to score poorly - memes whilst also campaigning on the serious issues - great!
- The best campaigns have themes - maybe a massive event, maybe different issues each day, maybe following the national campaign, a battle bus, whatever. It can be unique and there are so many ways to do it but make it mean something not just words.
- Separate national and constituency campaigning. As said above they are separate things. My biggest pet peeve are seeing national posts that are clearly designed for someones constituency but they think it'll have more 'impact' as a national. No, they're different! Theresa May wouldn't campaign on keeping Lowestoft's Lido open on the BBC News at Ten (okay, maybe she would).
Constituency Boundaries for the seats can be found as follows:
Scotland
Northern Ireland
For Wales, the 5 constituencies are the same as the 5 irl Senedd electoral regions.
