What are the true costs of running for government? What are the average funds to run an election campaign?

These are just some of the questions answered in this interactive, research & infographic-based website we created - along with branding & visual identity - for The Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) and UK’s Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD)

The “cost of politics” approach aims to draw links between how funds are raised and the impacts that they can have on the election cycle and quality of electoral democracy.

It focuses on the spending of individuals contesting for political office rather than those of political parties, following the money spent, from the candidate’s decision to stand for political office at the party primary phase, to the end of an individual's elected tenure.