Guidance for Candidates and Agents at UK Parliamentary general elections in Great Britain Share on Email Print this page Print full guidance You are in the Candidate spending section Guidance for Candidates and Agents at UK Parliamentary general elections in Great Britain Candidate spending What is candidate spending? Candidate spending is spending on activities to promote your candidacy, or to criticise other candidates, during the regulated period.1 To be candidate spending it must:be an activity on list of types of election expensespromote the candidate2 Once you have determined that something is candidate spending, you need to determine how it must be reported. It may be:ordinary spending incurred by the candidate or agent notional spending, where something is provided for you and made use of in your campaignlocal campaigning, where spending is incurred by someone other than the candidate or agentThe following pages provide detail on the activities that count as candidate spending and the different ways the spending is reported. 1. Section 90ZA & section 118A(2) Representation of the People Act 1983 (RPA 1983) ↩ Back to content at footnote 1 2. S.90ZA RPA 1983 ↩ Back to content at footnote 2 Last updated: 8 July 2024 Book traversal links for What is candidate spending? What records must you keep? What activities count as candidate spending?