the great advantage of having a fixed date er for these european elections on the ninth of june, a date that's been well known for a considerable time now, should be the certainty for the electorate, that they know not only the date of that election but the geographical boundary er of the constituency in which they live er the candidates that they can choose from and of course in relation to european elections, the number of er members of the european parliament that there will be representing the united kingdom.