European Elections 2019: This is everything you need to know
Voters will go to the polls on Thursday (May 23) to elect candidates to represent the East Midlands in the European Parliament.
The country is taking part in the elections after the UK and European Union agreed an extension to the Brexit process until October 31.
The East Midlands is one of 12 European electoral regions across the UK.
There are 73 Euro MPs (MEPs) representing the UK at the European Parliament.
How the voting works
Voters have one vote in the elections.
A regional list is put forward by parties competing in the elections - and independents can also stand.
You have one vote. You can vote for either one of the party's regional lists or an individual standing as an independent.
The share of the vote received determined the number of MEPs elected from each party, based on a system devised by Belgian lawyer and mathematician Victor D'Hondt in the 19th century.
The party with the most votes in the first round of counting wins a seat for the candidate at the top of its list.
In the second round of counting, the winning party's vote is divided by two - one plus one, for the number of Euro MP sit has.
The party now top in the reordered results wins a seat for their leading candidate.
The process continues, with the original vote of the winning party in each round being divided by one plus their running total of MEPs, until all the seats for the region have been taken
Who is standing in the East Midlands?
All the major parties, plus the Brexit Party, Change UK and an independent candidate are standing. Here they are:
East Midlands
5 seats, 2 elected as UKIP, 2 Conservative, 1 Labour
Brexit Party
Annunziata Rees-Mogg
Jonathan Deryck Bullock
Matthew Richard Patten
Tracy Selina Knowles
Anna Louisa Bailey
Change UK
Kate Godfrey
Joan Laplana
Narinder Sharma
Pankajhumar Gulab
Emma-Jane Marley
Conservative
Emma McClarkin
Rupert Matthews
Anthony Harper
Brendan Clarke-Smith
Thomas Randall
Green
Kat Boettge
Gerhard Lohmann-Bond
Liam McClelland
Daniel Wimberley
Simon Tooke
Independent
Simon Louis Rood
Independent Network
Nick Byatt
Marianne Jane Overton
Daniel Anthony Simpson
Pearl Winifred Clarke
Nikki Dillon
Labour
Rory Palmer
Leonie Mathers
Tony Tinley
Nicolle Ndiweni
Gary Godden
Liberal Democrat
Bill Newton Dunn
Michael Mullaney
Lucy Care
Suzanna Austin
Caroline Kenyon
UKIP
Alan Graves
Marietta King
Anil Bhatti
Fran Loi
John Evans
