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)
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