European elections candidates 2019: these are the prospective MEPs standing in the EU election across the North West

The European Parliamentary elections are due to take place May 23-26, 2019.

This will be the first time EU citizens living in the UK have had the opportunity to vote in an MEP to represent their region since 2014.

Here is a full list of the official candidates for the North West:

8 seats, 3 elected as Ukip, 3 Labour, 2 Conservative

Brexit Party

• Claire Fox

• Henrik Eyser Overgaard Nielsen

• David Bull

• Gary Harvey

• Ajay Jagota

• Elizabeth Oyedoyin Babade

• Sally Ann Bate

• John Howard Banks

Change UK

• Andrea Cooper

• Daniel Price

• Arun Banerji

• Michael Taylor

• Philippa Olive

• Victoria Desmond

• Andrew Graystone

• Elisabeth Knight

Conservatives

• Sajjad Karim

• Kevin Beaty

• Jane Howard

• Arnold Saunders

• Wendy Maisey

• Thomas Lord

• Anthony Pickles

• Attika Choudary

English Democrats

• Stephen Morris

• Valerie Morris

Independent

• Mohammad Aslam

Independent

• Tommy Robinson

Greens

• Gina Dowding

• Wendy Olsen

• Jessica Northey

• Geraldine Coggins

• Rosie Mills

• Astrid Johnson

• Daniel Jerrome

• James Booth

Labour

• Theresa Griffin

• Julie Ward

• Wajid Iltaf Kham

• Erica Lewis

• David Brennan

• Claire Cozler

• Saf Ismail

• Yvonne Tennant

Liberal Democrats

• Chris Davies

• Jane Brophy

• Helen Foster Grime

• Anna Fryer

• Sam Al-Hamdani

• Rebecca Forrest

• John Studholme

• Frederick Van Mierlo

UK European Union Party

• Sophie Catherine Larroque

Ukip

• Adam Richardson

• Jeff Armstrong

• Fiona Mills

• Nate Rydings

• Michael Felse

• Ben Fryer

• John Booker

• Alan Craig