South East England (European Parliament constituency)
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| South East England European Parliament constituency |
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| Created | 1999 |
| MEP(s) | 11 (1999 - 2004) 10 (2004 - present) |
| Member State | United Kingdom |
| Source(s) | [1][2] |
South East England is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 10 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency corresponds to South East England, in the south east of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex.
[edit] History
It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East, East Sussex and Kent South, Hampshire North and Oxford, Itchen, Test and Avon, Kent East, Kent West, South Downs West, Surrey, Sussex South and Crawley, Thames Valley, Wight and Hampshire South, and parts of Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes, Cotswolds, and London South and Surrey East.
[edit] Members of the European Parliament
[edit] 1999 - 2004
[edit] 2004 - 2009
| MEP's Name | Political Party | |
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| Richard Ashworth | Conservative | |
| Sharon Bowles (Appointed in 2005 to replace Chris Huhne) | Liberal Democrat (2005 onwards) | |
| Nirj Deva | Conservative | |
| James Elles | Conservative | |
| Nigel Farage | UKIP | |
| Daniel Hannan | Conservative | |
| Chris Huhne (Elected to Eastleigh in the 2005 UK general election) | Liberal Democrat (2004 - 2005) | |
| Caroline Lucas | Green | |
| Emma Nicholson | Liberal Democrat | |
| Ashley Mote (Had the UKIP whip removed 15 July 2004) | Independent | |
| Peter Skinner | Labour |
[edit] 2009 - 2014
[edit] Election results
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European Parliament election, 2009 (United Kingdom) Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.
| European Election 2009: South East England[1][2] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Daniel Hannan, Richard Ashworth, Nirj Deva, James Elles, Therese Coffey, Sarah Richardson, Richard Robinson, Tony Devenish, Niina Kaariniemi, Marc Brunel-Walker |
812,288 (203,072) |
34.8 | -0.4 | |
| UK Independence | Nigel Farage, Marta Andreasen, Steve Harris, Phillip Van der Elst, Harry Aldridge, Victor Webb, Christopher Browne, Andrew Moncreiff, Mark Stroud, Rob Burberry, Mahzar Manzoor, Ray Finch |
440,002 (220,001) |
18.8 | -0.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Sharon Bowles, Catherine Bearder, Ben Abbots, Jim Barnard, Anthony Hook, Zoe Patrick, Gary Lawson, David Grace, John Vincent, James Walsh |
330,340 (165,170) |
14.1 | -1.2 | |
| Green | Caroline Lucas, Keith Taylor, Derek Wall, Miriam Kennet, Jason Kitcat, Hazel Dawe, Jonathan Essex, Matthew Ledbury, Steve Dawe, Beverley Golden |
271,506 | 11.6 | +3.8 | |
| Labour | Peter Skinner, Janet Sully, Bob Fromont, Lisa Homan, Stephen Alambritis, Janet Keene, Munir Malik, Silke Thomson-Pottebohm, Rajinder Sandhu, Sukhi Dhaliwal |
192,592 | 8.2 | -5.4 | |
| British National | Tim Rait, Donna Bailey, Mark Burke, Andrew Emerson, Lynne Mozar, David Little, Peter Lane, Brian Horne, Adam Champneys, Andy McBride | 101,769 | 4.4 | +1.4 | |
| English Democrats | Steve Uncles, David Knight, Mike Tibby, Sean Varnham, Cllr Clive Maltby, Laurence Williams, Elizabeth Painter, Gerald Lambourne, John Griffiths, George Herbert | 52,526 | 2.2 | +0.9 | |
| Christian Party | Anthony May, Peter Joyce, Christabel McLean-Bacchus, William Thompson, David Ashton, Alexander Wilson, David Hews, Debra Smith-Gorick, Je'ran Cherub, Kenneth Scrimshaw | 35,712 | 1.5 | N/A | |
| NO2EU | Dave Hill, Garry Hassell, Kevin Hayes, Owen Morris, Gawain Little, Robert Wilkinson, Jacqui Berry, Nick Wright, Nick Chaffey, Sarah Wrack | 21,455 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Pro:Democracy-Libertas.eu | Kevin O'Connell, Daniel Hill, Neil Glass, Chloe Woodhead, Guy Lambert, Graheme Leon-Smith, Peter Grace, Nicholas Heather, David Peace | 16,767 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Derek Isaacs, Paramjit Singh Bahia, John McLeod, Ian Fyvie, Patricia Ruiz, Richard Mooney, Maureen Stubbings, Derek Stubbings, Mary Byrne, Eleanor Little | 15,484 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| United Kingdom First Party | Petrina Holdsworth, John Petley, Martin Haslam, Jennifer Parsons | 15,261 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Jury Team | Nick Trew, Nonie Bouverat, Lyn Tofari, Geoff Howard, Gerry Brierley, Anant Vyas, Michael Guest, Tony Sansum, John Lenton | 14,172 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Peace | John Morris, Geoffery Pay, Jim Duggan, Julie Roxburgh, Keith Scott, Shafaq Iqbal, Jenny Watson, Marcus Trower, Jeff Bolam, David Brown | 9,534 | 0.4 | -0.2 | |
| Roman Party Ave! | Jean-Louis Pascal | 5,450 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 2,334,858 | 37.5 | +1.0 | ||
| European Election 2004: South East England[3] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Daniel Hannan, Nirj Deva, James Elles, Richard Ashworth, James Provan, Roy Perry, Thérèse Coffey, David Logan, Ferris Cowper, Richard Robinson | 776,370 (194,092.5) | 35.2 | −9.2 | |
| UK Independence | Nigel Farage, Ashley Mote, David Lott, Craig Mackinlay, Timothy Cross, Petrina Holdsworth, David Abbott, Stephen Harris, Michael Wigley, Lisa Hawkins | 431,111 (215,555.5) | 19.5 | +9.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Chris Huhne, Emma Nicholson, Sharon Bowles, Catherine Bearder, James Walsh, Ann Lee, John Vincent, John Ford, Charles Fraser-Fleming, James Barnard | 338,342 (169,171) | 15.3 | 0 | |
| Labour | Peter Skinner, Mark Watts, Ann Davison, Simon Burgess, Janet Sully, Mark Muller, Josephine Wood, Raj Chandarana, Gillian Roles, David Menon | 301,398 | 13.7 | −5.9 | |
| Green | Caroline Lucas, Mike Woodin, Miriam Kennet, Keith Taylor, Alan Francis, Xanthe Bevis, Hazel Dawe, Derek Wall, Anthony Cooper, Michael Stimson | 173,351 | 7.9 | +0.5 | |
| British National | Brian Galloway, Julie Russell, Timothy Rait, Peter Lane, Roger Robertson, Julian Crewe, Adam Champneys, Ian Johnson, Arthur Whiting, Vernon Atkinson | 64,877 | 2.9 | +2.1 | |
| Senior Citizens Party | Grahame Leon-Smith, David Gray, Patrick Eston, Rona Brown, Paresh Kotecha, Larry Kreeger, Michael Devine, Terry Patinson, Ian Murdoch, Alfred Egleton | 42,861 | 1.9 | N/A | |
| English Democrats | Steven Uncles, Robert Sulley, Courtney Williams, Richard Sutton, Jacqueline Brookman, David Uncles, Lyndon Newins, Louise Uncles | 29,126 | 1.3 | N/A | |
| Respect | Ingrid Dodd, Patrick O'Keeffe, Muriel Hirsch, Ajaz Khan, Sally Watkins, Jonathan Molyneux, Norman Thomas, Ella Noyes, Bunny La Roche, Angelina Rai | 13,426 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Peace | John Morris, Caroline O'Reilly, Geoffrey Pay, Rachel Hancock, James Duggan, Kate Hebden, Cyril Bolam, Carol Morris, Anne Brewer | 12,572 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Christian Peoples | David John Bamber, David Campanale, Gladstone Macaulay | 11,733 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| ProLife Alliance | Dominica Roberts, Gillian Duval, Josephine Quintavalle, Penelope Orford, Mark Carroll, Rebecca Ng, John Dixon, Francis O'Brien, Yvonne Windsor, Carl St John | 6,579 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Independent | Philip Rhodes | 5,671 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 2,207,417 | 36.5 | +11.8 | ||
| European Election 1999: South East England[4] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | James Provan, Roy Perry, Daniel Hannan, James Elles, Nirj Deva, Bryony Bethell, Edward Kellett-Bowman, Alison Parry, Jeremy Mayhew, Barry Tanswell, Richard Ashworth | 661,932 (132,386.4) | 44.4 | N/A | |
| Labour | Peter Skinner, Mark Watts, Anita Pollack, Anne Snellgrove, Parmijt Dhanda, Ann Davison, Tamara Flanagan, John Howarth, Liz Clements, Alison Chapman, Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 292,146 (146,073) | 19.6 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrat | Emma Nicholson, Chris Huhne, Sharon Bowles, David Bellotti, Jo Hawkins, James Walsh, Barbara Hewett-Silk, Gerald Vernon-Jackson, Catherine Bearder, Christopher Berry, Dorothy Webb | 228,136 (114,068) | 15.3 | N/A | |
| UK Independence | Nigel Farage, Christopher Skeate, Tony Stone, Michael Phillips, Bernard Collignon, Ron Walters, Lynda Ross, Harold Green, Kim Rose, Michael Knight, Rob McWhirter | 144,514 | 9.7 | N/A | |
| Green | Caroline Lucas, Mike Woodin, Alan Francis, Pete West, Hazel Dawe, Steve Dawe, Alastair Stark, Johnny Denis, Lorraine E. Serrecchia, Laurence Littman, Julian Salmon | 110,571 | 7.4 | N/A | |
| Pro-Euro Conservative | John Stevens, Richard Basset, Anthony Frost, Anahita Gonzalez-Moreno, Mark Littlewood, Rebecca Pickering, Peter Sutters, Alan Armitage, Jonathan Swift, David Hurford-Jones, Richard Carswell | 27,305 | 1.8 | N/A | |
| British National | Michael Easter, Arthur Whitting, Robert Andrews, Gordon Callow, Mark Cray, Ian Dell, Matthew Gould, Richard Molesworth, Margaret Stones, Christopher Telford, Kevin Yates | 12,161 | 0.8 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Katrina Howse, Ian Fyvie, Nathan Parkin, Hannah Williams, Ken King, Sarah Hipperson, Monica Anne Parkin, John McCleod, Kenneth Ray, John Hayward, Michael Allen | 7,281 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | Peter Warburton, Nigel Kahn, John Oldbury, Jeremy Bowler, John Douglas-Small, Paul Cragg, Paul Levy, Bernard Bence, William Treend, Robert Stephens, John Hunter Thompson | 2,767 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Open Democracy for Stability | Brian Bundy | 1857 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Making a Profit in Europe | John Goss | 1400 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 1,490,069 | 24.7 | N/A | ||
[edit] References
- ^ South East Region - Statement of Parties and Individual Candidates Nominated and Notice of Poll
- ^ European Election 2009: South East
- ^ "2004 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. http://www.europarl.org.uk/section/2004/2004-election-candidates. Retrieved on 2009-06-04.
- ^ "1999 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. http://www.europarl.org.uk/section/1999/1999-election-candidates. Retrieved on 2009-06-04.
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