Election address

An election address is the material sent out by a candidate during a political campaign. Election Addresses are normally only sent out during the election period itself. Other political leaflets are usually known by different names.

Election address of three Labour candidates, Mary Barbour, Manny Shinwell, and Tom Kerr, for the Govan Fairfield ward in the Glasgow Municipal elections of 1920.

In UK parliamentary elections, all candidates are entitled to have one election address delivered free, by Royal Mail, to every voter in their constituency.

External links

• Election addresses Archived 2009-07-31 at the Wayback Machine Collection of election addresses of almost all of the candidates at every British General Election since 1892. University of Bristol Library Special Collections
• Election addresses - House of Commons Library