Guidance for the GLRO administering the GLA elections

Candidate / party details

In all cases you should use the maximum possible sizes of font and to ensure consistency, the same font size should be used for each candidate or party for each equivalent line.

Mayor of London election

Candidates must appear on the ballot paper as listed as in the statement of persons nominated. Their names and relevant details must appear according to the directions for printing.1   

Constituency Assembly Member election

Candidates must appear on the ballot paper as listed as in the statement of persons nominated. Their name and relevant details must appear according to the directions for printing. 2

London –wide Assembly Member election

The ballot paper must contain the authorised descriptions of the registered parties together with any individual London-wide Assembly Member candidates’ names and relevant details as shown in the statement of persons and parties nominated. These must appear according to the directions for printing.3   

Where a party is submitting a party list, the description of each party must appear in lower case with initial capitals.4  

You can find more information on the relevant candidate details listed in the statements of persons and parties nominated in our guidance. 

Candidate name

Candidate surnames must appear in capital letters,5 including the capitalisation of surnames beginning with MAC or MC and the names should follow strict alphabetisation e.g. MABBOT, MACLEAN, MATTHEWS, MCCORMICK, MORRISON.

Where a candidate has listed multiple names as their surname, either hyphenated or not, you should reproduce the whole name as provided. For example Dick Van Dyke would appear as VAN DYKE, Dick on the ballot paper and for alphabetisation purposes their surname would start with a V. 

Similarly, Ann Smith-Jones would be SMITH-JONES, Ann on the ballot paper and would be listed as an S for alphabetisation purposes.

Emblems

Party list submissions and  candidates can request the use of a party emblem on the ballot paper. In these cases you may be provided with a high-resolution copy of the emblem for use in the printing of ballot papers. Alternatively you may need to download the emblem from our website. You should ensure that whatever copy is used is in the same form as the registered emblem. 

The maximum size of an emblem on the ballot paper is two centimetres square.6 Do not alter or distort the shape of the emblem to fit the ballot paper. You should ensure that the emblem is in the same form as the registered emblem – for example, do not stretch emblems into square shapes if they are not registered as square images on our website, as this would have the effect of altering their appearance.