EA Bulletin: 409 England

On Tuesday 18 March 2025, we will be publishing a dataset which includes the headline figures for the spending incurred and donations accepted by candidates at the 2024 UK parliamentary general election. 

The data will be published through an interactive tool reflecting the figures as reported by candidates in their spending returns submitted to Returning Officers. 

In the run up to the May 2025 local elections, we are hosting advice surgeries for candidates and agents to support them with the candidate spending laws, practical aspects of their campaign, and completing spending return. The surgeries will provide a 20-minute, one-to-one slot for any candidates or agents who have questions or would like advice or guidance.

If you are aware of any potential candidates and agents who may benefit from attending this webinar, please forward this information to them.

The surgeries will take place on 8th, 9th and 10th April 2025. If you would like to register, please complete this form.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected] . 

We will be providing an out-of-hours telephone advice service to help with urgent electoral administration queries in the run up to and immediately following the May 2025 polls.  

Contacting us during normal office hours

Our local teams will be available between the hours of 08:30 and 17:30 throughout the election period to support you as usual.

If you are contacting us during normal office hours, please use our Advice and Guidance Line: 0333 103 1928.

Alternatively, you can email us at: [email protected] .  

Contacting us outside of normal working hours

Our out-of-hours urgent advice service will be available from Monday 24 March. This includes weekends and bank holidays throughout the election period. Evening cover will be from 17:30 until 21:00 and weekend and bank holiday cover from 10:00 until 16:00.

Additionally, there will be 24-hour cover available on polling day,  and weekend and bank holiday cover from Saturday 3 May to Monday 5 May.

We can be contacted out-of-hours by calling: 0207 271 0504. 

The final print-ready polling station handbooks for the May 2025 polls have now been published on our website, replacing the reference versions published earlier in February, along with the quick guides for polling station staff.

We expect hard copies to be delivered to those who have ordered them this week.  If you haven’t received your order by Tuesday, 18 March, please get in touch via [email protected]  or your local commission team.

As always, if you have any questions or require any assistance, please do contact your local Commission Team.