Here you can find further guidance on the controls relating to political parties. It also gives access to the forms to be used to registered political party and by political parties to submit financial and other information.
Explanatory notes
- Guidance on registering a political party - party registration
- Donations and loans to registered political parties
- Donations guidance for Northern Ireland registered parties
- Campaign expenditure by registered political parties - campaign expenditure
- Combined regulated periods and campaign expenditure limits at UK parliamentary elections - campaign expenditure
- Guidance on sponsorship and party conferences
- Guidance to companies Political donations and lending
- Guidance on policy development grants for eligible parties - policy development grants
- Guidance on hustings
- Statement of Accounts - Best practice guide - Parties
- Statement of Accounts - Best practice guide - Accounting units
Forms and guidance notes
| Application to register a political party in the United Kingdom | Form RP1UK | Guidance notes RP1UK |
| Application to register a political party in Great Britain only | Form RP1GB | Guidance notes RP1GB |
| Application to register a political party in Northern Ireland only | Form RP1NI | Guidance notes RP1NI |
| Application to register as a minor party (restricted to contesting community elections in Wales and parish elections in England) | Form RP1M | Guidance notes RP1M |
| Application to alter an entry in the register of poltical parties | Form RP2 | Guidance notes RP2 |
| Application to register descriptions | Form RP2 (descriptions) | Guidance notes RP2 (descriptions) |
| Application to register a joint description | Form RP2 (Joint description) | Guidance notes RP2 (Joint description) |
| Notification of a change of registered details by political party | Form RP3 | Guidance notes RP3 |
| Application to register a replacement officer(s) | Form RP4 | Guidance notes RP4 |
| Notification of details of a deputy treasurer/campaigns officer | Form RP5 | Guidance notes RP5 |
| Declaration of exemption by a registered political party | Form RP6 | Guidance notes RP6 |
| Withdrawal of declaration of exemption by a political party | Form RP7 | Guidance notes RP7 |
| Confirmation of registered details of a political party | Form RP8 | Guidance notes RP8 |
| Confirmation of registered details of a minor political party | Form RP8M | Guidance notes RP8M |
| Application for the removal of registration of a political party | Form RP9 | Guidance notes RP9 |
| Quarterly return of donations to a political party in Great Britain | Form RP10 | Guidance notes RP10 |
| Quarterly return of donations to a Northern Ireland party | Form RP10aNI | Guidance notes RP10aNI |
| Quarterly nil return of donations to a political party in Great Britain | Form RP10QN | Guidance notes RP10QN |
| Quarterly nil return of donations to a political party in Northern Ireland | FormRP10NIQN | |
| Quarterly return of regulated transactions | Form RP10b | Guidance notes RP10b |
| Return of existing transactions | Form RP10c | Guidance notes RP10c |
| Quarterly nil return of regulated transactions | Forms RP10QNb | Guidance notes RP10QNb |
| Declaration of a loan to a political party under voluntary code | Form RP10L | Guidance notes RP10L |
| Weekly report of donations to a political party on the GB register | Form RP10(W) | Guidance notes RP10(W) |
| Campaign expenditure return by political party on GB register | Form RP11 (GB) |
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| Campaign expenditure return by political party on GB register using combined limits |
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| Campaign expenditure return by political party on NI register | Form RP11(NI) | Guidance notes RP11(NI) |
| Campaign expenditure return by political party on NI register using combined limits |
Form RP11 (NI) C |
Guidance notes RP11 (NI) C |
