| East Midlands European Parliament constituency |
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| Created | 1999 |
| MEP(s) | 6 (1999 - 2009) 5 (2009 - present) |
| Member State | United Kingdom |
| Source(s) | [1][2] |
East Midlands is a constituency of the European Parliament. For 2009 it elects 5 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
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Boundaries
The constituency corresponds to the East Midlands region of England, comprising the counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire and the non-Metropolitan county of Lincolnshire.
History
It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Leicester, Northamptonshire and Blaby, Nottingham and Leicestershire North West, Nottinghamshire North and Chesterfield, and parts of Lincolnshire and Humberside South, Peak District, and Staffordshire East and Derby.
Members of the European Parliament
1999 - 2004
| MEP's Name | Political Party | |
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| Nick Clegg | Liberal Democrats | |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Conservative | |
| Roger Helmer | Conservative | |
| Bill Newton Dunn | Conservative (1999 - 2000) | |
| Liberal Democrats (2000 onwards) | ||
| Mel Read | Labour | |
| Phillip Whitehead | Labour |
2004 - 2009
| MEP's Name | Political Party | |
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| Derek Clark | UKIP | |
| Chris Heaton-Harris | Conservative | |
| Roger Helmer | Conservative | |
| Robert Kilroy-Silk | UKIP (2004) | |
| Veritas (2004 - 2005) | ||
| Independent (2005 - 2009) | ||
| Bill Newton Dunn | Liberal Democrats | |
| Phillip Whitehead (Died 31 December 2005) | Labour (until 2005) | |
| Glenis Willmott (Appointed on 1 January 2006 to replace Phillip Whitehead) | Labour (2006 onwards) |
Complaint against Kilroy-Silk
In August 2005, four of the MEPs for the region (Clark, Heaton-Harris, Helmer and Whitehead) sent a joint letter to President of the European Parliament Josep Borrell to complain of Kilroy-Silk: "He seems to have done little or no work as a constituency MEP for the East Midlands. This leaves five MEPs to do the work of six and the electorate have been short-changed". They went on to complain that Kilroy-Silk was not "fulfilling the pledge he made on becoming an MEP, to serve the electorate of his region" and to call for him to "either do the job for which he is paid, or get out and leave it to those who can."[1] Such a complaint is unprecedented and Kilroy-Silk refused to comment on it; the European Parliament does not have any power to expel a member and Borell has taken no action.[1]
2009 - 2014
| MEP's Name | Political Party | |
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| Derek Clark | UKIP | |
| Bill Newton Dunn | Liberal Democrats | |
| Roger Helmer | Conservative | |
| Emma McClarkin | Conservative | |
| Glenis Willmott | Labour |
Election results
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Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.
| European Election 2009: East Midlands[2] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Roger Helmer, Emma McClarkin, Rupert Matthews, Fiona Bulmer, George Lee[3] |
370,275 (185,137.5) |
30.2 | +3.8 | |
| Labour | Glenis Willmott, Roy Kennedy, Kathryn Salt, J David Morgan, Cate Taylor[4] |
206,945 | 16.9 | -4.1 | |
| UKIP | Derek Clark, Christopher Pain, Stephen Allison, Deva Kumarasiri, Irena Marriott[5] |
201,184 | 16.4 | -9.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Bill Newton-Dunn, Ed Maxfield, Veena Hudson, Denise Hawksworth, Deborah Newton-Cook[6] |
151,428 | 12.3 | -0.6 | |
| BNP | Robert West, Cathy Duffy, Peter Jarvis, Lewis Alsebrook, Kevin Stafford[7] | 106,319 | 8.7 | +2.1 | |
| Green | Sue Blount, Richard Mallender, Ashley Baxter, Matthew Follett, Barney Smith[8] | 83,939 | 6.8 | +1.4 | |
| English Democrats | Derek Hilling, Tony Ellis, Diane Bilgrami, David Ball, Anthony Edwards[9] | 28,498 | 2.3 | N/A | |
| UK First | Ian Gillman, Christopher Elliot, Nadine Platt, David Noakes, Mariann Finch | 20,561 | 1.7 | N/A | |
| Christian Party | Suzanne Nti, Thomas Rogers, Timothy Webb, Colin Bricher, Doreen Schrimshaw[10] | 17,907 | 1.5 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | David Roberts, Paul Liversuch, Shaun Kirkpatrick, Michael Clifford, Thea Roberts | 13,590 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| NO2EU | John McEwan, Avtar Sadiq, Jean Thorpe, Shangara Singh Gahonia, Laurence Platt | 11,375 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Libertas | Richard Elvin, Margot Parker, Peter Chaplin[11] | 7,882 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Jury Team | James Lowey, Simon Flude, James Parker, Henry Blanchard, Perry Wilsher | 7,362 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 1,228,065 | 37.1 | -6.3 | ||
| European Election 2004: East Midlands[12] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Roger Helmer, Chris Heaton-Harris, Pauline Latham, Sharon Buckle, Jonathan Bullock, Sarah Richardson | 371,362 (185,681) | 26.4 | −13.1 | |
| UKIP | Robert Kilroy-Silk, Derek Clark, Ian Gillman, Peter Baker, John Browne, Barry Mahoney | 366,498 (183,249) | 26.1 | +18.5 | |
| Labour | Phillip Whitehead, Glenis Willmott, Ross Willmott, Vandna Kalia, Alan Rhodes, Elizabeth Donnelly | 294,918 | 21.0 | −7.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Bill Newton Dunn, Alan Riley, Veena Hudson, Richard Church, Deborah Newton-Cook, Lisa Gabriel | 181,964 | 12.9 | +0.2 | |
| BNP | Peter Francis, Clive Potter, Patrick May, John Pennington, Wendy Russell, John Hall[13] | 91,860 | 6.5 | +5.2 | |
| Green | Brian Fewster, Susan Blount, Robert Ball, Simon Anthony, Paul Bodenham, John Chadwick | 76,633 | 5.5 | +0.1 | |
| Respect | Mohammed Suleman, Sulma Mansuri, Pauline Robinson, Helen Merryman, Craig Plowman, Mary Littlefield | 20,009 | 1.4 | N/A | |
| Independent | Russell Rogers | 2,615 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Independent | Shadmyraine Halliday | 847 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 1,406,706 | 43.4 | +20.6 | ||
| European Election 1999: East Midlands[14] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Roger Helmer, Bill Newton Dunn, Chris Heaton-Harris, Javed Arain, Sharon Buckle, Pauline Latham | 285,662 (95,220.67) | 39.5 | N/A | |
| Labour | Mel Read, Phillip Whitehead, Angela Billingham, Sue Waddington, Valerie Vaz, John Mann | 206,756 (103,378) | 28.6 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrat | Nick Clegg, Susan Barber, Ash Vadher, Lisa Gabriel, Brian Niblett, Lesley Dunbar | 92,398 | 12.7 | N/A | |
| UKIP | Hugh Meechan, Edward Spalton, Derek Clark, David Barraclough, Barry Mahoney, Dusan Torbica | 54,800 | 7.6 | N/A | |
| Green | Gaynor Backhouse, Geoffrey Forse, Brian Fewster, Sue Blount, Ashley Baxter, Jill Bullock | 38,954 | 5.4 | N/A | |
| Alternative Labour List supporting Left Alliance | Ken Coates, Tony Simpson, Jill Dawn, Peter Jackson, Peter McGowan, Robert West | 17,409 | 2.4 | N/A | |
| Pro-Euro Conservative | Freddie de Lisle, John Szermerey, Julien Goodman, Katheryn Stokes, Greg Chadwick, Clive Stoddart | 11,359 | 1.6 | N/A | |
| BNP | Steven Belshaw[15], Adrian Belshaw, Barry Roberts, Neil Phillips, Edward Sheppard, Michael Coleman | 9,342 | 1.3 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | David Roberts, Paul Liversuch, Valerie Seabright, Thea Hutt, Stanley Taylor, Stephen Marvin | 5,528 | 0.8 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | Russell France, Susan Lincoln, Patricia Saunders, David Cooke, Andrew Doughty, Neil Allison | 1,525 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 723,733 | 22.8 | N/A | ||
References
- ^ a b Stares , Justin. Kilroy-Silk does 'little or no work' and should quit, say MEPs. The Telegraph, 2005-08-13. "A cross-party coalition has called for Robert Kilroy-Silk to quit the European Parliament on the grounds that he seldom attends and does "little or no work" for his East Midlands constituency. [...] His four regional colleagues - Christopher Heaton-Harris (Conservative), Roger Helmer (Conservative), Phillip Whitehead (Labour) and Derek Clark (Ukip) - said they "deplore" Mr Kilroy-Silk's non-attendance. "He seems to have done little or no work as a constituency MEP for the East Midlands. This leaves five MEPs to do the work of six and the electorate have been short-changed," they wrote. "Mr Kilroy-Silk should either do the job for which he is paid, or get out and leave it to those who can." The parliament has no power to remove Mr Kilroy-Silk, who is understood to have attended the minimum number of plenary sessions required to be eligible for his parliamentary allowances.
- ^ European Election 2009: East Midlands
- ^ Conservative Party
- ^ Labour Party
- ^ UK Independence Party
- ^ Liberal Democrats
- ^ British National Party
- ^ Green Party of England and Wales
- ^ English Democrats
- ^ The Christian Party - CPA
- ^ Libertas.eu
- ^ "2004 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. http://www.europarl.org.uk/section/2004/2004-election-candidates. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20040603105335/www.bnp.org.uk/freedom/regions/emcand.html
- ^ "1999 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. http://www.europarl.org.uk/section/1999/1999-election-candidates. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/programmes/2001/bnp_special/membership/organisers/stephen_belshaw.stm
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