You may want to engage with the public at public meetings, promoting your views and responding to questions from the audience.
Any candidate at the Mayor of London election, as well as any Constituency Assembly Member candidate and individual candidate at the London-wide Assembly election is entitled to use publicly funded rooms and schools for public meetings from the point they officially become a candidate until the day before polling day.1
A party list candidate has this right once the party’s nomination form and list of candidates has been submitted.2
Candidates at the election of the Mayor of London and all London Assembly Member candidates can use rooms throughout Greater London.
Constituency Member candidates are entitled to use rooms in the constituency they are contesting (or, if they are unavailable, rooms in an adjoining constituency).
You should contact the owner of the premises to make a booking, giving reasonable notice to reduce the risk of the request being refused. Your right to use the room does not include hours during which a school is used for educational purposes or when any prior letting of a room has been agreed.
There is no hire charge for using these rooms, but you must pay for any expenses incurred, such as heating, lighting and cleaning, and for any damage to the premises.
The Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) keeps a list of the location and availability of meeting rooms in their area. They will make this list available for inspection by candidates and election agents (and persons authorised by them) from the day the notice of election is published.
Contact details for EROs can be found on our website.