Run elections people can trust.
Create an election, invite your voters, watch turnout as it happens and publish results automatically, all from one platform built for organisations.
For schools, universities, unions, associations, companies and more.
Student Union Election 2026
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President
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Your entire election. One platform.
AscendVote brings every stage of an election into one place: setting up positions, managing your voter list, watching turnout and declaring the winners. No more juggling spreadsheets, group chats and paper forms.
- Set up positions and contestants in one place
- Manage your voter list and who is eligible to vote
- Follow turnout live while voting is open
- Declare results automatically when voting closes
Results
Declared automatically
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Create an election without the complexity.
Name your election, add the positions people are standing for, set when voting opens and closes, and bring in the voters who are eligible to take part. It all happens in one place, in a few clear steps.
- Add positions and organise their contestants
- Choose the dates and times voting runs
- Keep your eligible voters together with the election
Positions
4
Ready to configure
Election setup
80% complete
Voting should be simple for everyone.
Voters don't need instructions or technical knowledge. They receive access to their election, verify themselves, review the positions and cast their votes.
Welcome to the election
2026 Student Union Election
Cast your vote
Voting closes
Oct 14, 2026 · 6:00 PM
Have your voter ID and PIN ready.
Know how your election is going.
Follow participation while voting is open: how many voters are registered, how many have voted and how turnout is building through the day. Administrators see participation, not ballot choices.
- Registered voters, votes cast and turnout at a glance
- Participation across the day, from morning to evening
- Who has voted, never who they voted for
Turnout
+8.2% vs a previous election (sample data)
When voting ends, the outcome is clear.
Once an election closes, administrators can review the results position by position, with vote counts and percentages laid out in a format that is easy to read and easy to explain.
- Results for every position in one place
- Vote counts and percentages side by side
- A clear record that voting has ended
Election ended
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One platform. Many communities.
AscendVote helps organisations run structured elections without relying on paper ballots, spreadsheets or complicated manual processes.
Schools & Universities
Student elections, class representatives, student unions and campus organisations.
Clubs & Societies
Leadership elections and internal voting for the groups people belong to.
Associations
Professional associations, member organisations and societies.
Companies
Internal elections, committees and organisational voting.
Communities
Community leadership and group decisions.
Unions & Bodies
Structured member elections and leadership voting.
Designed to protect the integrity of every election.
AscendVote is designed around controlled voter access, structured elections and a clear separation between participation information and ballot choices.
Controlled voter access
Only eligible voters should be given access to an election.
Protected voting process
The voting experience is designed so voters complete their ballot through a controlled process.
Election configuration
Administrators control important settings such as voting periods and eligible voters.
Participation visibility
Administrators can monitor participation and turnout without ballot choices being shown as participation data.
AscendVote is built to give organisations a structured way to run elections while keeping the voting experience simple for their members.
Read how your vote is protectedVoter access
Controlled
Know how an election works with your information.
We explain the platform's data handling, election responsibilities and service rules in plain language.
Clear responsibilities
Organisations set voter eligibility and election rules. AscendVote processes the information needed to run the election.
Separate voting records
Participation is recorded separately from ballot choices. The privacy policy explains what each record contains and the limits.
Retention explained
The policy sets out configurable member-data retention and the cleanup periods used for selected security records.
The tools you need to run an organised election.
Election Management
Create and configure elections from one place.
Voter Management
Organise eligible voters and control election access.
Positions & Candidates
Set up positions and add contestants to each election.
Voting Experience
Give voters a clear, guided process from verification to vote submission.
Participation
Monitor turnout and election participation.
Results
View election outcomes in a structured format.
Questions about AscendVote?
Short answers to the things organisations ask first.
AscendVote is an online voting platform from Ascend Technologies. It helps organisations create and run structured elections digitally, from setting up positions and contestants to managing voters and viewing results.
Any organisation that needs to run an election: schools and universities, clubs and societies, associations, companies, communities, unions and other bodies.
No. AscendVote is a web-based experience, so voters open their election in a compatible web browser instead of installing an app.
AscendVote is designed for organisations that need to manage elections over time. The exact account and election limits will depend on the plans offered with the product and will be confirmed as those are finalised.
AscendVote treats participation information, such as who has voted and overall turnout, separately from ballot choices. How voter privacy works in detail will depend on how an election is configured and on the platform's implementation, and it will be explained clearly as the product is released.
Yes. The voting experience is designed to be mobile-friendly, so voters can take part from a phone using a compatible browser.
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