Ten parties are fielding candidates in the European elections.
And the field of candidates comes from far and wide - former Holmfirth businessman Richard Carter is a founder of the new Yorkshire First party, and he now lives in Norway and works in Germany.
Clr Andrew Cooper, who is a Newsome Green Party councillor, is the only candidate still living in Kirklees and is the Green Party’s lead candidate.
Clr Cooper said, if elected, he will have a constituency office in Huddersfield and remain a Kirklees councillor until 2015 to save the £20,000 cost of a by-election, donate his councillor’s allowance of £12,566 to the Newsome Ward Forum and remain an active councillor until he stepped down.
He said: “The Green Party was just 1% short last time of getting and MEP place so we hope this is our time.
“The key thing I’ll be working for is to draw money down to help jobs, help young people and protect and encourage the growing green economy.
“When the government abolished the Regional Development Agency we lost out an awful lot of European money.
“The job of an MEP is to draw down the resources and money is there and we can do better at getting it.”
Richard Carter’s Yorkshire First’s colleague Stewart Arnold is their lead candidate.
Mr Carter said the party was about giving Yorkshire a voice.
He said: “When you move away you look back with a different sort of thinking and see what potential there is - there are 5.3m in Norway and it’s the same size as Yorkshire.
“Yorkshire has a population the same as Scotland and an economy twice the size of Wales but the powers of neither. Something has to change.
“It’s easy to get angry and annoyed at what we’re missing out on, or you can try to do something about it as I am.
“Yorkshire First is about devolution and starting a conversation, it’s an unsexy subject but bringing powers to the region is important.
“My heart is still there and people abroad often become more English or more Yorkshire.”
The 10 parties are fighting for six regional seats in European Parliament, with the vote on Thursday, May 22.
The list of candidates for the Yorkshire and Humber Region is:
An Independence from Europe:
Christopher Jonathan Booth
Kerrie Oxenham
Malcolm John Snelling
John Buchanan Martin
Paul Balderson Sootheran
Howard Roy Blake
British National Party:
Marlene Guest
Adam Walker
Daniel Paul Cooke
Joanne Brown
Steven Richard Harrison
Stuart Henshaw
Conservative Party:
Timothy John Robert Kirkhope
Alex Story
John Michael Procter
Carolyn Abbott
Michael James Naughton
Ryan Stephenson
English Democrats:
Chris Beverley
David Wildgoose
Ian Sutton
Colin Porter
Tom Redmond
David Allen
Green Party:
Andrew Cooper
Shan Oakes
Victoria Anne Dunn
Denise Craghill
Martin Francis Hemingway
Kevin Robert Warnes
Labour Party
Linda McAvan
Richard Corbett
Eleanor Tunnicliffe
Asghar Khan
Helen Mirfin-Boukouris
Darren Hughes
Liberal Democrats:
Edward Hugh McMillan-Scott
James Monaghan
Joseph Otten
Chris Foote-Wood
Jacqueline Dianne Bell
Aquila Choudhry
NO2EU:
Trevor Howard
Mary Jackson
Carrie Hedderwick
Adrian O’Malley
Steven John Andrew
Iain Alaistair Dalton
UKIP:
Jane Maria Collins
Amjad Mahmood Bashir
Mike Hookem
Gary Colin Shores
Jason Paul Smith
Anne Murgatroyd
Yorkshire First:
Stewart David Arnold
Richard Carter
Richard John Honnoraty