Are you registered to vote in the European Parliament election?

Voting for the European Parliament election will take place on Thursday 23 May, if the UK has not left the EU before then.

You must be registered to vote by Tuesday 7 May and be 18 or over on 23 May, to vote in the EU election.

If you are a citizen of the UK, Republic of Ireland, Malta or Cyprus, you are eligible to register to vote at all UK elections and do not need a European Parliament voter registration form.

You have to be resident at an address in the UK, and not be legally excluded from voting.

• You can register online here: www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

Anyone who is already on the electoral register can also choose to register by post. Applications for a postal vote in this election must be received by 5pm on Wednesday 8 May.

The deadline to apply for a proxy vote is 5pm on Wednesday 15 May. To find out more visit www.yourvotematters.co.uk

EU citizens can vote in European parliamentary elections, if you are a citizen of an EU country (other than the UK, Ireland, Malta and Cyprus) resident in England, you must do the following three things before Tuesday 7 May:

• Be registered to vote. You can register online here: www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
• Download the European Parliament voter registration form at the bottom of this article
• Send the completed form to your local Electoral Registration Office: www.gov.uk/get-on-electoral-register

73 members of European Parliament (MEPs) will be elected by the UK, participating, with 10 MEPs in the north west constituency. The European parliament is made up of 751 MEPs elected by the 28 member states of the EU. 

61 candidates are standing in the north west and can be viewed at:

• whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/europarl.uk-north-west.2019-05-23/north-west/

The European Parliamentary Elections are run using a form of proportional representation. Voters have one vote only, and this can be cast for either a political party or an individual candidate. Each party puts forward a list of candidates for the North West and the allocation of the eight MEP positions will depend on the overall share of the vote that a party or individual candidate receives in the region.

MEPs represent the whole of the north west region and so everybody who is eligible to vote in the region will be voting from the same list of parties and candidates.

The north west region covers Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside.

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