European Elections 2019 – Welsh ‘region’ candidates plus their answers to our questions!

This article is old - Published: Monday, May 6th, 2019

The European Parliament elections are being held on May 23rd, where Wales gets to vote for four MEP’s as a ‘region’.

You can register to vote online here.

The MEP’s will get voted in via proportional representation, in an order as listed by their party, so those at the top of the party list are more likely to be elected. The number of MEPs per party is sorted out via the d’Hondt method, which is a ‘highest averages method for allocating seats’ – there is an explainer to this on Wikipedia here.

We have attempted to contact every single party, inviting them to forward on our questions to all of their candidates and also asking for relevant social media links and profile images so we can give you more detail on who they are.

The full party and candidate list is below, and where we have had a reply from the candidate / party that is linked to and highlighted.

Change UK

Jon Owen Jones

June Davies

Matthew Paul

Sally Stephenson

Conservative

Dan Boucher

Craig Lawton

Fay Jones

Tomos Davies

Green

Anthony Slaughter

Ian Chandler

Ceri Davies

Duncan Rees

Labour

Jackie Jones

Matthew Dorrance

Mary Wimbury

Mark Whitcutt

Liberal Democrats

Sam Bennett

Donna Lalek

Alistair Cameron

Andrew Parkhurst

Plaid Cymru

Jill Evans

Carmen Smith

Patrick McGuinness

Ioan Bellin

The Brexit Party

Nathan Gill

James Wells

Gethin James

Julie Price

UKIP

Kris Hicks

Keith Edwards

Tom Harrison

Robert McNeil-Wilson

The full list of candidates running in Wales can also be found below from the official notice of poll. Unlikely local elections no postal addresses are provided for the candidates.

Key dates:

Deadline to register to vote: Tuesday, 7 May 2019

http://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

Deadline to apply for a postal vote: 5pm Wednesday, 8 May 2019

https://www.yourvotematters.co.uk/how-do-i-vote/voting-by-post

Deadline to apply for a proxy vote: 5pm Wednesday, 15 May 2019

https://www.yourvotematters.co.uk/how-do-i-vote/voting-by-proxy

Election day Thursday, 23 May 2019 !