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

Election

An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the...

 period itself. Other political leaflets are usually know by different names.

In UK parliamentary elections

United Kingdom general elections

This is a list of United Kingdom general elections since the first in 1802. The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament...

, all candidates are entitled to have one election address delivered free, by Royal Mail

Royal Mail

Royal Mail is the government-owned postal service in the United Kingdom. Royal Mail Holdings plc owns Royal Mail Group Limited, which in turn operates the brands Royal Mail and Parcelforce Worldwide...

to every voter in their constituency.

External links

• Election addresses Collection of election addresses of almost all of the candidates at every British General Election since 1892. University of Bristol Library Special Collections