Guidance for Returning Officers administering a Senedd election

All candidates are required to complete and submit a home address form with the nomination form, by the close of nominations.1 The form used must be in the prescribed form (or a form to like effect).2
  
The candidate must state their full name and home address in full on the home address form. If a candidate includes a commonly used name on their nomination form, the home address form must also include the commonly used name.3
 
The candidate’s home address:

• must be completed in full
• must not contain abbreviations
• must be their 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.

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A candidate may choose for their home address not to be published on the statement of parties and persons nominated.4   

In this case the home address form must contain:5

• a statement, signed by the candidate, which states that their home address must not be made public 
• the candidate’s full name and commonly used name (if applicable) and home address 
• if the candidate’s home address is in the UK, the relevant area
  • if their home address is in Wales, the relevant areas is the Senedd constituency in which their home address is located, 
  • if their address is outside Wales, the relevant area is the UK Parliamentary constituency in which their home address is located
• if their home address is outside of the UK, the name of the country in which their home address is situated