Would this put tou off voting for local candidate?

We have had an unaddressed Tory and Lib Dem. Addressed to DP Labour one.

My mother and father have two labour, two ukip, two lib dem all addressed individually, and one conservative adressed to no one.

I think it's an off putter.

My mail is MY mail. And so is DHs. What if we weren't on good terms? Do I get to miss out on election communications?

Also, (and please correct me here, I'm a bit shaky on this one), didn't the big parties get a certain allowance for communicating once with each voter by mail? What are they doing with the money?

I think that this is one of those things where you can'T DO RIGHT for doing wrong. ie of you send one per household then the other person feels disenfranchised - if you send one each its wasteful/not green etc.
maybe decide on their policy not their leaflets...

fgs its just an error. I seriously doubt that someone stood in the local LibDem office and ruled that married women did not count as they are their husbands property.

I think you should have a look at some policies if this is the kind of issue that would put you off voting for someone.

our leaflets have both our names on them. Cos I refused to change my name when we got married

I've had some and DH has had some - they just send them randomly I think. I certainly wouldn't be daft enough to use it as a reason not to vote for someone!

I dont know who ours is addressed to, the dog chews it. When its junk mail I dont stop him.

Has the boundary moved? Or are you miles from Worthing.

I suppose it might have been the case the candidate had been asked to stand in Worthing West and had prepared the material for the printers, and then something changed and that candidate is now standing for your constituency. Is it the wrong name for the candidate?

Or is it such a safe seat that to be frank, it hardly matters because you're one of the few who took time to read it and spot the error?

I got one yesterday from Lib Dems all about our town . Tought it was really good until the bit where it said the candidate would 'champion Worthing West'. Not my constituency! Mistakes when they speak, mistakes when they print, what's next?

I haven't been studying them all that closely on their way to the recycling bin, but we are getting four copies of a lot of stuff, as DS and DD are both over 18 and registered here. Though DD is a student & also registered in Exeter, as are all her 5 housemates: I suspect they won't be able to get through their front door when they go back at the weekend...

The Royal Mail have to deliver one piece of election communication per party, per voter named on the electoral register.

I suspect what the parties are doing is staggering the freepost leafleting so that they don't both arrive at once. I'll pretty sure that you'll get your named leaflet over the next week or so.

Well with sexism, try to beat the Swiss Ambassy. I am a Swiss living in the UK, I used to recieve a quarterly news letter about Switzerland in my name. DH became Swiss a couple of years back and now it comes in his name, as if I had suddenly wanished out of existence!

Belgarath has got bugger all literature addressed to him. I have got one from the LibDems and one from Tories. Then there's been all the stuff which has no address on it at all.

I don't suspect our candidates of misandry, but I have no idea upon what basis they decide which member of the household to send literature to.

Ooh - someone is watching! Today we got a lib dem leaflet addressed to both of us....

I'm voting Green, they haven't sent any leaflets (no money for them) They have no chance of winning here, its a dead safe Tory seat, but they might get their deposit back.

I have heard political parties do target certain genders, I suspect its just a mistake though, or they have only got enough money for one leaflet.

I think they're the freeposts? the electoral addresses that every party has the right to have delivered for free by Royal Mail, as opposed to the ones that they deliver using their own resources.

Who they go to is apparently decided by whose name is first on the electoral register.

BNP leaflet never got to the Puppies - i shredded for the rats to piss on....

"I got a lib dem one there is no name or address on it it is put in letter box by volunteers, not the postman."

5 of 6 parties have provided leaflets (BNP has not, to date). Nothing has had a name on.

Only the UKIP one appeared to have come "with the postman" but not addressed (like some advertising literature the Royal Mail delivers)

I suspect it just varies from one candidate to another what they do - one per household, one per surname, one each, etc. And an independent candidate is more likely than a big party to just have a database he's knocked up himself, which may well pick one name alphabetically or even at random. Unless there's anything else in his leaflet which makes you think he's a misogynist, then I think you should just assume it's random and not a sign of his views.

I got a lib dem one there is no name or address on it it is put in letter box by volunteers, not the postman.