Guidance for Candidates and Agents at Senedd elections

You as Nominating Officer (or someone appointed in writing by you) may withdraw your whole party list, or one or more of the candidates from the party list by signing and submitting a withdrawal notice.1 There are no restrictions on who may submit the notice, but it must be delivered to the Returning Officer (RO):2

• by hand to the place for the delivery of nomination papers
• electronically as per the arrangements set out in the notice of election

by the deadline for withdrawals, 4pm, 19 working days before the poll.3

A candidate on the party list may also withdraw from the election by submitting a withdrawal notice, which must be signed by them in the presence of a witness who must attest their signature.4

A notice of withdrawal can be obtained from the RO or downloaded from our website:

If you withdraw the full party list, all of the deposit will be returned.

If a candidate on the party list withdraws or is withdrawn by you, the return of the deposit will depend on the number of candidates still remaining on the party list. If there are less than six candidates remaining, a portion of the deposit will be returned.

After the withdrawal deadline it is not possible to withdraw from the election.