THE candidates have been confirmed for the European elections in Warrington.

Polling cards have been sent out this week with the election set to take place on Thursday, May 23.

Eight MEPs will be elected to serve in the north west. The election could yet be cancelled if an agreement can be reached over Brexit.

Here is the full list

CONSERVATIVES >

*Sajjad Karim, Kevin Beaty, Jane Howard, Arnold Saunders, Wendy Maisey, Thomas Lord, Anthony Pickles, Attika Choudhary

LABOUR

*Theresa Griffin, *Julie Ward, *Wajid Khan,  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

BREXIT PARTY >

Claire Fox, Henrik Overgaard Nielsen, David Bull, Gary Harvey, Ajay Jagota, Elizabeth Babade, Sally Bate, John Banks

CHANGE>

Andrea Cooper, Dan Price, Arun Banerji, Michael Taylor, Philippa Olive, Victoria Desmond, Andrew Graystone,  Elisabeth Knight

GREEN >

Gina Dowding, Wendy Olsen, Jessica Northey, Geraldine Coggins, Rosie Mills, Astrid Johnson, Daniel Jerrome, James Booth

UKIP >

Adam Richardson, Jeff Armstrong, Fiona Mills, Nathan Ryding, Michael Felse, Ben Fryer, John Booker, Alexander Craig

EDP >

Stephen Morris, Valerie Morris

OTHER >

Mohammad Aslam (Ind Aslam) Tommy Robinson (Ind Robinson) Sophie Larroque (UKEUP)

Electorate 5,268,697

* = elected last time

WHAT HAPPENED IN 2014?

In 2014 in the north west, Labour had a majority of 112,131 (6.39%) and the turnout was 1,754,687 (33.30%)

Full results:

Lab 594,063 (33.86%);

UKIP 481,932 (27.47%);

Conservatives 351,985 (20.06%);

Green 123,075 (7.01%);

LD 105,487 (6.01%);

BNP 32,826 (1.87%);

Independence 26,731 (1.52%);

EDP 19,522 (1.11%);

Pirate 8,597 (0.49%);

NO2EU 5,402 (0.31%);

Soc Equality 5,067 (0.29%).

Elected: Foster (C), Karim (C), Griffin (Lab), Khan (Lab), Ward (Lab), Nuttall (UKIP), Bours (UKIP), Woolfe (UKIP)