Planning your election campaign

Need to target and reach more voters? Let us show you how to use mail effectively

Planning your election campaign

Need to target and reach more voters? Let us show you how to use mail effectively

With Candidate Mail and Poll Card Mailing we’ll help you:

  • Target and reach all potential voters in your area
  • Plan and schedule your mail campaign
  • Distribute poll cards

In each electoral region of the UK we have a dedicated Election Manager to give you support and ensure that your mail campaign runs smoothly.  They will agree a date with you for delivering your campaign literature to Royal Mail.  Candidates and political parties are responsible for ensuring campaign literature is taken to the correct Royal Mail office on time.  Our Election Support Team can advise of our drop-off points.  Collections are available for an extra fee.

Contact your Account Manager for more information

Or call our Election Support Team

0345 607 6424*

We’ll help you work out volumes to reach all potential voters in your area

Get your artwork checked

We’ll need to check your campaign material to make sure it doesn’t contain anything obscene or offensive. 

  1. Check our Candidate Mail user guide (pdf, 946.32 KB), Poll Card Mailing Option user guide (pdf, 4.16 MB) or Poll Card Machineable Envelope & One-Piece Mailer Design user guide (pdf, 1.26 MB) for conditions and recommendations
  2. Fill out a Candidate Mail Form (xlsx, 20.71 KB)
  3. Email the completed form and your Candidate Mail artwork or Poll Card Mailing Option artwork to artwork.checking@royalmail.com

Candidate Mail Formxlsx, 20.71 KB

Candidate Mail Guidepdf, 946.32 KB

Poll Card Mailing Option User Guidepdf, 4.16 MB

Elections where photo id is required as illustrated in appendix 3 of the Poll Card Mailing Option User Guidepdf, 64.82 KB

Poll Card Machineable Envelope & One-Piece Mail designpdf, 1.26 MB

Retail Letters price guidepdf, 1.59 MB

Candidate mail drop off point to constituency mappingxls, 67.5 KB

Poll card mailing option Local Authority to drop off point mappingxls, 51.5 KB

Street-Sort-Delivery-Office-Postcode-Matchxlsx, 282.04 KB

We’ll help you manage postal voting
Find out about Postal Voting

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