Guidance for Local Returning Officers administering a Police and Crime Commissioner election in England and Wales

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The election agent

Each candidate must have an election agent and notice of the appointment must be delivered to the PARO by the latest time for delivery of notices of withdrawal, which is 4pm on the nineteenth working day before the poll.1

Upon notification of an election agent’s name and address, the PARO must publish a notice setting out those details and the name of the candidate as soon as possible. 

The PARO will provide you, as LRO, with a copy of the notice and you must publish that within the voting area.2

The PARO must update and republish the notice if any agent’s appointment is revoked, or an agent dies. When this happens the PARO must provide you with a copy of the updated notice, and you must republish the notice of election agents in your voting area.3  

Last updated: 11 October 2023