ElectionChamp
Online Voting for K-12 Schools
Run student council elections, PTA votes, and school-wide decisions online. Easy enough for students, secure enough for administrators, and affordable enough for any school budget.
School Elections Shouldn't Take Weeks of Planning
Between lesson plans, extracurriculars, and everything else, running an election shouldn't be one more thing piled on a teacher's plate.
Too Much Work for Teachers
Printing ballots, organizing polling stations during lunch, counting votes after school: student council elections fall on teachers and advisors who are already stretched thin.
PTA Participation Is Declining
Working parents can't always attend evening meetings to vote on budgets, officer elections, or school initiatives. Mailed paper ballots have low return rates and are expensive to process.
No Real Learning Moment
A quick show-of-hands vote doesn't teach students about democratic processes. They deserve an experience that mirrors a real election, with real candidates, real ballots, and real results.
There's a better way to run school elections.
ElectionChamp handles the voting, counting and results, and reminders take one click, so teachers can teach and students can learn what real civic participation looks like.
Start Your Free ElectionEvery Vote Your School Needs to Run
From student council to PTA board elections, ElectionChamp handles every type of school vote with the same security and simplicity.
Student Council Elections
Elect your student body president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and class representatives. A real ballot that teaches real civic engagement.
- Student body officers
- Class representatives
- Grade-level officers
PTA / PTO Elections
Elect PTA officers and board members without requiring every parent to attend a meeting. Reach working parents, remote families, and guardians who can't be there in person.
- PTA/PTO officer elections
- Committee chair votes
- Board member elections
Budget & Fundraising Votes
Get parent or PTA approval for budgets, fundraising allocations, and major spending decisions. Document the vote for your records and school administration.
- Annual PTA budget approval
- Fundraiser allocation decisions
- Field trip or event funding
Awards & Superlatives
Homecoming court, yearbook superlatives, spirit week competitions, and school-wide awards. Run fun, engaging votes that students look forward to.
- Homecoming court
- Yearbook superlatives
- Teacher appreciation awards
School-Wide Polls
Mascot votes, spirit week themes, prom themes, school improvement ideas. Give students a voice on the things that shape their school experience.
- Mascot or logo votes
- Prom and dance themes
- School improvement priorities
Faculty & Staff Votes
Department heads, committee assignments, policy decisions, and staff governance votes. The same secure platform works for adult elections with full audit documentation.
- Department chair elections
- Committee representative votes
- Policy and governance decisions
Set up your school election in 5 steps
No software to install. Voters need no account. Most organizers finish in about 10 minutes.
Start
Name your election, pick when voting opens and closes, and add your logo. Choose how voters get their key: by email, by text message or handed out.
Ballot
Add each question or position and its candidates or options. Choose how members vote, and check the live preview of what they will see. Class officers, student council seats or a dance theme.
Voters
Paste your member list from a spreadsheet or upload a CSV. Each voter gets a private key. Add a weight column if some votes count more.
Invitations
The email and text message are written for you. Change the wording if you like, and email yourself a test.
Launch
Check the summary and launch. Up to 20 voters is free, and larger elections pay once, at launch.
After launch
Members vote from any device. Watch turnout, send a reminder to those who haven't voted, and share the results when voting closes.
Features Schools Actually Need
Simple enough for a 5th grader, secure enough for a school board. Every feature included on every plan.
Works on Any Device
Chromebooks, iPads, phones, laptops: students vote from whatever device they have. No app to download, no account to create. Works in any browser.
Learn more about Works on Any DeviceSecure & Anonymous
Every vote is encrypted and anonymous. Students learn that their ballot is private, just like in a real election. No one can see how any individual voted.
Learn more about Secure & AnonymousOne-Click Reminders
Send a reminder to every parent or student who hasn't voted, straight from your dashboard. Perfect for PTA elections, where getting parents to respond is the biggest challenge. Free elections include 1 reminder, and paid elections up to 5, one every 24 hours.
Learn more about One-Click RemindersInstant Results
Results calculated automatically when voting closes. Announce your new student council president at the assembly. No overnight counting required.
Learn more about Instant ResultsFull Audit Trail
A timestamped record of when voting opened and closed, every ballot submitted (never who cast it), and every reminder and resend. If parents or students have questions about the results, you have clear documentation.
Learn more about Full Audit TrailWrite Ballots in Your Language
Write your ballot, candidate statements, instructions and invitations in whatever language your school community uses, such as Spanish, French or Korean. Only the buttons and system text on the voting screens stay in English.
Learn more about Write Ballots in Your LanguageWhy Schools Choose ElectionChamp
School elections should be a learning experience, not a logistics headache. ElectionChamp gives students a real voting experience while saving teachers and PTA volunteers hours of work, at a price any school can afford.
- Free for up to 20 voters, perfect for class elections and small PTA boards
- Works on Chromebooks, iPads, and phones, with no special software needed
- Teaches students about real democratic processes and private ballots
- Write your ballot and invitations in your community's language
- No IT department required: any teacher or parent volunteer can set it up
A Real Ballot That's Simple Enough for Any Age
Clean, clear, and easy to understand. Students see candidate names and statements, make their choices, and submit, just like a real election. No confusing menus, no distractions.
For PTA elections, parents get the same clean experience on their phone: vote during their commute, over lunch, or whenever it's convenient.
See the Full Voter ExperiencePricing That Fits a School Budget
Small class elections are completely free. Even school-wide elections for 1,000 students cost just $50. No monthly fees, no subscriptions. You only pay when you run an election, and every feature is included.
Ready to Modernize Your School Elections?
Join schools that have moved from paper ballots and cafeteria voting stations to secure online elections.
School Voting Questions
Absolutely. The ballot interface is clean and intuitive: candidate names, simple descriptions, and clear selection buttons. Students as young as 3rd grade have used ElectionChamp successfully. For younger students, a teacher or advisor can supervise the process in a computer lab or classroom setting using school devices.
Not necessarily. If your school assigns student email addresses (like Google Workspace for Education), those work perfectly. If students don't have email, you have two options: use a parent or guardian email to send the voter keys, or turn on Hand out keys in the Start step and print the keys after launch for teachers to hand out in class. Each key is unique and can only be used once.
Yes, and this is one of the most popular approaches. Set up the election, distribute voter keys to each classroom, and have students vote on their Chromebooks during a designated class period. Teachers can supervise without seeing any individual ballots.
Yes. Your account can manage unlimited elections with different voter lists. Run student council elections for students, PTA officer elections for parents, and faculty votes for staff, all from the same account, each with separate ballots and results. Many schools use ElectionChamp for all of these throughout the year.
Each student receives a unique 16-character voter key that can only be used once. Once a ballot is submitted, that key is permanently marked as used. Even if a student tries to click their voting link again, they'll see a confirmation that their vote has already been recorded. There is no way to vote twice.
ElectionChamp takes student privacy seriously. Names are optional: each voter needs only an email address or a phone number, or no details at all if you hand out keys yourself. Ballots are encrypted with AES-256 and anonymous, so no one can see how any individual voted. We do not collect, store, or share any student educational records. The platform collects only the minimum data needed to administer the election.
For a 500-voter PTA election, just $25 ($10 base + $0.05 × 300 voters above 200). A school-wide student election with 800 students would cost $40. Compare that to the cost of printing paper ballots and the volunteer hours spent counting them. No monthly fees. You only pay when you run an election.
Yes, that's by design. There's no software to install, no server to configure, and no IT department needed. Any teacher, student council advisor, or PTA volunteer can create an account, set up an election, add a voter list and launch in about 10 minutes. It works in any web browser on any device.
Not a K-12 School? We've Got You Covered
Run Your Next School Election Like a Champ
Set up in minutes. Free for up to 20 voters. No credit card required.
Questions? support@electionchamp.com