European election candidates named

Candidates who hope to be elected to the European parliament were named today.

The candidates for the South West region are:

British National Party: Jeremy Edward Wotherspoon; Barry John Sinclair Bennett; Adrian Llewellyn Romilly; Sean Derrick Twitchin; Lawrence Reginald West; Peryn Walter Parsons.

Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship": William Patrick Capstick; Katherine Susan Mills; Diana Ama Ofori; Larna Jane Martin; Peter Vickers; Adenike Williams.

Conservative Party: Giles Bryan Chichester; Julie McCulloch Girling; Ashley Peter Fox; Michael John Edward Dolley; Donald John Collier; Syeda Zehra Zaidi.

English Democrats Party: Michael John Turner; Sara Shelley Box; Keith Robert Riley; Stephen Michael Wright; Raymond Christopher Carr; Lee Pickering.

Fair Pay Fair Trade Party: David Michael; Judy Foster.

Jury Team: Sally Dorothea Smith; Martin Thomas Paley; Michael Andrew Clayton; Brian Gordon Underwood; Roger Whitfield; William Christopher Barnett.

Liberal Democrats: Graham Robert Watson; Kay Barnard; Justine McGuinness; Humphrey Peter Neville Temperley; Paul Stephen Massey; Jonathan Stagnetto.

Mebyon Kernow, The Party for Cornwall: Dick Cole; Conan James Trevenen Jenkin; Loveday Elizabeth Trevenen Jenkin; Simon John Reed; Glenn Renshaw; Joanie Mary Anne Willett.

No2EU — Yes to Democracy: Alexander Fraser Gordon; Roger Alexander Davey; Rachael Lynch; Nicholas James David Quirk; John Howard Chambers; Paul Charles Dyer.

Pensioners Party: Jonathan McQueen; Barry Hodgson; Derek Francis Wharton; Roger Leslie Edwards; Stuart Baker; Barry Reginald Egerton.

Pro Democracy Libertas.eu: Robin Charles Matthews; Peter Charles Albert Morgan-Barnes; Chloe Gwynne; Christopher Charnock; Nicholas Carlton Collingwood Sherman; Nicholas Charles Sacheverell Coke.

Socialist Labour Party: Robert James Hawkins; Brian Andrew Corbett; Alison Mary Entwistle; David Terence Marchesi; Robert Oliver Hawkins; James William Bannister.

The Green Party: Richard Antony Knight; Roger Michael Creagh-Osborne; David Ronald Moore Taylor; Sarah Margaret Scott-Cato; Chloe Alice Somers; Richard Hugh Lawson.

The Labour Party: James Glyn Ford; Isabel Martha Owen; Keir Dhillon; Dorothea Hodge; Dafydd Emlyn Williams; Elizabeth Susan Lisgo.

United Kingdom Independence Party: Bernard Trevor Colman Westerly; William Dartmouth Whiteway; Gawain Howard Wilkinson Towler; Julia Reid; Alan Stephen Wood; Stephanie McWilliam.

WAI D Your Decision: Nicola Guagliardo; Joy Margaret Skey.

Katie Olivia Hopkins — Independent: Katie Olivia Hopkins.

● MEPs are elected under a proportional representation system.

Voters have one vote. Each party puts forward a list of candidates and voters can choose one of these lists or an independent candidate.

The parties are then allocated a number of MEPs according to their share of the vote.