milh0use
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6 years ago DemocracyClub API notes:
https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/api/v0.9/
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Given a ward, find a candidate with a Twitter handle. Add all their friends to a collection of Twitter handles for their party in their council area. Then for each other candidate in that party and council area, check the collection for matches.