We provide guidance for candidates and agents with regard to expenditure and donation controls. In addition, we provide forms for submitting candidates' expenses returns.
Please be aware that candidates are subject to controls on the election expenses that they incur in the relevant regulated period before an election, and are regulated by the Representation of the People Act 1983 (RPA).
For more information, please see our legislation page.
UK Parliamentary by-election expenditure returns
We provide the following guidance:
Please see the following forms dealing with candidate returns:
Local government election expenditure returns
For guidance documents for local government candidates and agents, please see our page for electoral administrators. We provide the following forms and guidance dealing with local government election expenditure for England and Wales:
