The Electoral Commission's Peter Wardle has highlighted the inconsistent and potentially confusing rules for election addresses for Police Commissioner and City Mayor candidates.

The Scottish government is preparing to drop its opposition to the UK Electoral Commission supervising an independence referendum.

Over on epolitix, Lord (Chris) Rennard has a piece calling for changes to the electoral registration system to place the burden on individuals rather than households following the news that at least 6 million people are unregistered: All parties and the Electoral Commission are agreed in principle that the electoral registration system should change to

Labour MP for Southampton Itchen, John Denham, is urging people to register to vote in Southampton. A report from the Electoral Commission has predicted that over 6 million eligible people are missing from the voter register. The Government are currently proposing to speed up the timetable of registering voters in addition to removing the safeguards to monitor the impact of the overall registratio...

Whether or not someone lives in private rented property is one of the most important factors in predicting whether or not they will be on the electoral register, new research by the Electoral Commission has found.

The Electoral Commission has a new consultation paper out, returning to an old issue: when should election counts be held?

The Electoral Commission has this past week published the latest donation and borrowing figures for the political parties, showing that the Lib Dems raised £1,199,623 between July and September this year. (At the foot of this post is the full breakdown of donations (excluding public funds) received by quarter since 2005, and annually between 2001

This morning the Electoral Commission published details of donations to political parties in Q3 2011. The Labour Party is grateful to all our donors. The Labour Party’s biggest donor is our members &# this includes the 65,000 new members that we have gained since the start of the General Election campaign and under Ed Miliband’s leadership.

The Electoral Commission has called on Parliament to modify the Localism Bill to delay the proposed start date for local referendums on Council Tax levels, neighbourhood development plans and local authority structures (e.g. elected Mayors) from Spring 2012 to Spring 2013.

The Electoral Commission has promised to look at the question of when elections should be counted.