Guidance for Candidates at Parish council elections in England

Some parishes will be sub-divided into wards. You can check with the Returning Officer if the parish you intend to stand in is warded. While you may submit nomination papers for more than one ward, you cannot stand for election in more than one ward within the same parish after the deadline for withdrawals.1

If the Returning Officer accepts your nomination papers and you are validly nominated in more than one ward within the same parish, you must withdraw from all wards but one by 4pm on the 19th working day before the poll. If you do not, then you will be deemed to have withdrawn from all of the wards.2