European elections 2019 London candidates: Who is standing in the EU Parliament vote this year?

Londoners will head to polls in a matter of days as the European Parliament elections are due to take place at the end of May.

Voters will elect 73 MEPs from across the UK on Thursday, May 23 with eight representing the capital.

The election is taking place after Britain delayed its exit from the European Union until October. 

Here the Standard takes a look at which candidates are standing in London.

Animal Welfare Party

Vanessa Hudson

Jane Smith

Sam Morland

Ranjan Joshi

Mina Da Rui

Jon Homan

Simon Gouldman

Brexit Party

Ben Habib

Lance Forman

Graham Shore

Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

Adefolajimi Ogunnusi

Simon Marcus

Mehrtash A’zami

Aileen Quinton

Change UK

Gavin Esler

Jan Vincent-Rostowski

Carole Tongue

Annabel Mullin

Karen Newman

Nora Mulready

Jessica Simor

Haseeb Ur-Rehman

Conservatives

Syed Kamall

Dr Charles Tannock

Joy Morrissey

Timothy Barnes

Scott Pattenden

Attic Rahman

Kirsty Finlayson

Luke Parker

Green Party

Scott Ainslie

Gulnar Hasnain

Shahrar Ali

Rachel Collinson

Eleanor Margolies

Remco van der Stoep

Kirsten De Keyser

Peter Underwood

Labour

Claude Moraes

Seb Dance

Katy Clark

Laura Parker

Murad Qureshi

Taranjit Chana

James Beckles

Sanchia Alasia

Liberal Democrats

Irina Von Wiese

Dinesh Dhamija

Luisa Porritt

Jonathan Fryer

Hussain Khan

Helen Cross

Graham Colley

Rabina Khan

UK European Union Party

Pierre Kirk

Richard Stevens

Saleyha Ahsan

Anna Novikova

Angela Antetomaso

Richard Boardman

UKIP

Gerard Batten

Richard Braine

Peter Muswell

Freddy Vachha

Robert Stephenson

Peter McIlvenna

John Poynton

Ronie Johnson

Women’s Equality Party

Catherine Mayer

Bea Gare

Nanci Hogan

Aliyah Dunbar-Hussain

Hannah Barham-Brown

Alison Marshall

Olivia Vincenti

Leyla Mohan

Independent

Daze Aghaji

Roger Hallam

Alan Kirkby

Kofi Klu

Zoe Lafferty

Claudia Mcdowell

Andrew Medhurst

Henry Muss

Mike Shad

Ian Sowden

Andrea Venzon