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Home address form

Candidates are also required to complete a home address form, which must be delivered by hand by one of those people who can deliver the nomination form and by the close of nominations. The form is not prescribed but the information that needs to be provided is set out in law.1  

On the home address form the candidate must state their full name and home address. 

The candidate’s home address: 

  • must be completed in full 
  • must not contain abbreviations 
  • must be the candidate’s current home address 
  • must not be a business address (unless the candidate runs a business from their home) 

If any detail of the home address is wrong or omitted, the nomination is not automatically invalid if the description of the place is such as to be commonly understood.

We have produced a home address form as part of our sets of nomination papers that you can use to provide to candidates and agents for use at the election of a Police and Crime Commissioner or a Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner. 

Candidates who don’t want their home address to be published

A candidate may choose for their home address not to be published on the statement of persons nominated or the ballot paper. 

In this case the home address form must contain:

  • the full name and 
  • full home address
  • a signed statement stating that they require their home address not to be made public and
  • confirming that they are registered in the register of electors for an electoral area in respect of an address within the police area
Last updated: 28 March 2024