Latest Templates – Winning Before Christmas
Waiting until January to launch your local election campaign puts you on the back foot. It leaves your candidates with too little time to establish themselves in their communities, and leaves them fighting for attention alongside a crowd of rival candidates who have also just turned up.
Autumn is your window to build a lasting, local reputation. By getting newsletters out now and knocking on doors early, you demonstrate year-round commitment and collect the crucial voter data that shapes a winning campaign.
ALDC has produced brand new templates to lay the foundations for your election in May. These include fresh Focus and canvass card templates, an Annual Report template and a 2027 calendar.
The Focus leaflets are available in Bulk Buy deals with printers Election Workshop. We will advertise these Bulk Buys in our weekly member emails and you can find our current deals on our Bulk Buy webpage.
Built for the long haul: We won’t be changing these core Focus and Canvass Card designs until 2028. With a range of adaptable content blocks and ongoing drop-in templates, you’ll have everything you need to maintain a fresh, consistent look that voters instantly recognise.
2026-27 Focus Newsletter
The centrepiece of Lib Dem literature: Delivered every month or two, our refreshed Focus template is available in A3 and A4, full-colour and two-colour. Rebuilt for greater flexibility, it features pages of swap-in content blocks alongside contact boxes built to highlight up to three local campaigners seamlessly. Get a great discount on printing your leaflets with our Thank You Leaflet Bulk Buy
Essential Assets: Kepolu font – Tiempos font – Build your own bar chart guide
2026-27 Canvass Card
A year-round doorstep essential: Ideal for routine, non-election door-knocking, this versatile A5 canvass card is available in full-colour and two-colour formats. Designed to showcase up to three campaigners, it includes interchangeable back-page content blocks to promote local petitions, deliver squeeze messages, recruit volunteers, or collect resident casework on the spot.
Essential Assets: Kepolu font – Build your own bar chart guide
2026-27 Annual Report
An Annual Report is a great end-of-year piece to put out, placing an entire year’s worth of hard work into perspective. You have a choice with this template between three front, back and tab panels (that’s nine overall!). Inside you can choose to show off your casework stats or relay residents’ appreciation for the work you’ve done with a further choice between a large record of action map or a “Before” and “After” table. Pick and mix which panels will provide the best frame to showcase all that you have achieved this year!
Essential Assets: Kepolu font – PT serif – Build your own bar chart guide
2027 Calendar
Not every piece of literature needs to be a hard political pitch. ALDC’s popular calendar templates are a fantastic, low-pressure way to remind residents that you’re active and working for them year-round—with the huge added bonus of sitting on their fridge for 365 days! This year’s template comes with handy customisable options, allowing you to feature either essential local council phone numbers or a timely postal vote reminder alongside your calendar.
Essential Assets: PT serif
Download Affinity 3
All Liberal Democrat templates (produced by both ALDC and Lib Dem HQ) will now be produced using the newest version of Affinity Publisher (Affinity 3 by Canva) – including most of our current Summer of Campaigning templates.
Templates produced using Affinity 3 cannot be opened in an earlier version of the programme (though templates produced on earlier versions can be opened in Affinity 3).
Affinity 3 is free to download and use. We therefore strongly urge everyone to download a copy. You can get your free copy here: