Upon notification of an election agent’s name and address you must publish a notice setting out those details and the name of the candidate as soon as possible. The notice must be updated if any agent’s appointment is revoked, or the agent dies, and the new agent’s details published on the revised version. You must provide a copy of the notice to all LROs in your police area for them to publish locally.1
Your privacy notice should make clear that you are required under electoral legislation to publish an election agent’s name and address information in the notice of election agents. You will also need to consider whether it is appropriate or necessary for the notice to remain published, on your website or elsewhere, beyond the expiry of the petition period for that election. The notice serves a specific purpose, i.e. advising who will be a candidate’s election agent, so once the election is over, and the opportunity to question that election has passed, they serve no further purpose. Therefore, you should either remove the notice, or remove the personal data contained in the notice, once the petition deadline for the election has passed You can find more information in our guidance on Data Protection.