It’s that time of year again, the devolved elections are here.

In Northern Ireland we have now reached #AEVIII, in Scotland #SPVII and Wales #WAIV- it is your responsibility to remember these tags.

Just a note these dates are the same, regardless of whether the proposed reforms pass or not.

Election Timetable (all times BST)

May 26th - Final Business Day in all three devolved legislatures. (Note this is the final day, business may end a day or two earlier in individual sims, each Speaker will relay their own information)

May 28th (22:00) - Candidate list deadline (modmailed to /r/MHOCQuad)

May 29th (22:00) - Manifesto submission deadline (modmailed to /r/MHOCQuad)

May 30th - Manifestos and Election Debates posted

June 1st (7:00) - Campaigning opens (/r/MHOCCampaigning)

June 4th (22:00) - Campaigning closes

June 5th - Polling Day

June 7th or 8th - Election Night

June 13th - Coalition negotiating period ends, Speakership teams may begin FM Elections.

Manifestos continue to have a 4,000 word limit. Direct translations of sections (or whole manifestos) into native minority languages are exempted from this rule and are the only thing exempt.

Manifestos produced solely in native minority languages shall see the Quadrumvirate request a translation into English.

Please tag all campaign posts with #AEVIII, #WAIV or #SPVII, as appropriate, with either ‘National’ or the name of a constituency (eg ‘Angus, Perth and Stirling’) following this in the title of your posts. For Stormont, simply #AEVIII will suffice. Posts tagged incorrectly may not be counted.

All campaigning should be conducted in /r/MHOCCampaigning

Please keep to the submissions deadlines above. Late submissions may be penalised electorally.

Rules

Encouraging your party members and friends to help out in the campaign is completely fine. Any advertising a party does wish to do must be approved by the Quadrumvirate.

Advertising via any subreddit, website, mass PMing, or otherwise which has not been approved by the Quadrumvirate is explicitly prohibited. Any breach of this will result in electoral penalties.

Thank you!