The 2019 European election candidates for the South West of the UK

Local elections have already taken place in May - but don't put those pencils away yet because there's another election taking place this month.

Voters across the country will head to the polls for the 2019 European Parliamentary election on Thursday, May 23.

Hundreds of thousands of polling cards have been delivered to households across Bristol and the region within the last week.

It is now too late to register to vote at these elections.

The UK is divided into 12 electoral regions made up of the nations and regions of the UK.

Each region has between three and 10 MEPs and each MEP in a region represents each person living there.

Voter putting slip in to election ballot box (Bristol Live)

The south west has six MEPs and they are currently held by William Dartmouth, Ashley Fox, Julia Reid, Julie Girling, Clare Moody and Molly Scott Cato.

MEPs are elected by proportional representation, in order as listed by their party.

Here are the candidates you will be able to vote for in the South West.

Change UK

1. Rachel Johnson
2. Jim Godfrey
3. Ollie Middleton
4. Matthew Hooberman
5. Liz Sewell
6. Crispin Hunt

Conservatives

1. Ashley Fox
2. James Mustoe
3. Faye Purbrick
4. Claire Hiscott
5. James Taghdissian
6. Emmeline Owens

English Democrats

1. Jenny Knight
2. Michael Blundell

Green Party

1. Molly Scott Cato
2. Cleo Lake
3. Carla Denyer
4. Tom Scott
5. Martin Dimery
6. Karen La Borde

Labour

1. Clare Moody
2. Andrew Adonis
3. Jayne Kirkham
4. Neil Guild
5. Yvonne Atkinson
6. Sadik Adam Al-Hassan

Liberal Democrats

1. Caroline Voaden
2. Martin Horwood
3. Stephen Williams
4. Eleanor Rylance
5. David Chalmers

6. Luke Stagnetto

The Brexit Party

1. Ann Widdecombe
2. James Glancy
3. Christina Jordan
4. Ann Tarr
5. Roger Lane-Nott
6. Nicola Darke

Ukip

1. Lawrence Webb
2. Carl Benjamin
3. Tony McIntyre
4. Lester Geoffrey Taylor
5. Stephen Lee
6. Alison Sheridan

Independent

1. Larch Maxey
2. Mothiur Rahman
3. Neville Seed

READ MORE - full local elections results in your area:

• North Somerset results
• South Glos results
• Bath & North East Somerset results