Full list of local candidates for Thursday Euro-elections

Grantham residents join those across the UK have the chance to go to the polls for this year’s European Parliament elections on Thursday (May 23rd)

The UK has 73 MEPS in total, five of them representing the East Midlands, including the whole of Lincolnshire.

MEPs in England are elected by a system of proportional representation.

The UK will legally take part in the EU wide poll to elect members of European Parliament.

After failing to agree a Brexit deal ahead of the March 29th deadline, the UK is now set to leave the EU on October 31 following an extension granted by Brussels.

The European Parliamentary Assembly is a directly-elected governmental body of 751 members from across Europe. It has a number of legal and financial responsibilities and is the EU’s primary law-making body.

It works to pass EU laws, decide international agreements, scrutinise EU institutions and establish the EU budget.

At the polling stations, voters put an x by any party or independent candidate they wish to vote for. Candidates are ranked by their parties from highest priority to lowest.

The seats go, in turn, to the party which receives the highest votes.

However, as each subsequent seat is allocated the winning party gets its total votes divided by the number of seats they have won plus one.

Onbly people already registered are eligible to vote.

Below is the list of candidates in party list order for the East Midlands:

• Change UK
  • Kate Godfrey
  • Joan Pons Laplana
  • Narinder Sharma
  • Pankajkumar Gulab
  • Emma Manley
• Conservative
  • Emma McClarkin
  • Rupert Matthews
  • Tony Harper
  • Brendan Clarke-Smith
  • Thomas Randall
• Green
  • Kat Boettge
  • Gerhard Lohmann-Bond
  • Liam McClelland
  • Daniel Wimberley
  • Simon Tooke
• Independent Network
  • Nick Byatt
  • Marianne Overton
  • Daniel Simpson
  • Pearl Clarke
  • Nikki Dillon
• Labour
  • Rory Palmer
  • Leonie Mathers
  • Tony Tinley
  • Nicolle Ndiweni
  • Gary Godden
• Liberal Democrats
  • Bill Newton Dunn
  • Michael Mullaney
  • Lucy Care
  • Suzanna Austin
  • Caroline Kenyon
• The Brexit Party
  • Annunziata Rees-Mogg
  • Jonathan Bullock
  • Matthew Patten
  • Tracy Knowles
  • Anna Bailey
• UKIP
  • Alan Graves
  • Marietta King
  • Anil Bhatti
  • Fran Loi
  • John Evans
• Independent
  • Simon Rood

Sitting members in bold.