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| Created | 1999 |
| MEP(s) | 10 (1999 - 2004) 9 (2004 - 2009) 8 (2009 - present) |
| Member State | United Kingdom |
| Source(s) | [1][2][3] |
London is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 8 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation, having previously elected 9 [1]
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Boundaries
The constituency corresponds to Greater London, in the south east of the United Kingdom.
History
It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were London Central, London East, London North, London North East, London North West, London South East, London South Inner, London South West, London West, and parts of London South and Surrey East.
Polls
YouGov polls in January and May 2009 have showed the following voting intentions for London in the European Elections:[2][3][4]
| January poll | Mid May poll | Late May poll | ||||
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| Party | Vote share[5] | Seat estimate | Vote share | Seat estimate | Vote share | Seat estimate |
| Conservative | 38% | 4 | 29% | 3 | 33% | 4 |
| Labour | 23% | 2 | 24% | 2 | 16% | 1 |
| Liberal Democrats | 20% | 2 | 12% | 1 | 16% | 1 |
| Green | 8% | 0 | 9% | 0 or 1 | 12% | 1 |
| UKIP | 6% | 0 | 18% | 2 or 1 | 11% | 1 |
| BNP | 2% | 0 | 5% | 0 | 6% | 0 |
| Other | 2% | 0 | 3% | 0 | 7% | 0 |
Members of the European Parliament
1999 - 2004 (5th term)
| MEP's Name | Political Party | |
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| Richard Balfe | Labour (1999 - 2002) | |
| Conservative Party (2002 - 2004) | ||
| Nicholas Bethell | Conservative Party | |
| John Bowis | Conservative Party | |
| Robert Evans | Labour Party | |
| Pauline Green | Labour Party | |
| Jean Lambert | Green Party | |
| Sarah Ludford | Liberal Democrat Party | |
| Claude Moraes | Labour Party | |
| Charles Tannock | Conservative Party | |
| Theresa Villiers | Conservative Party |
2004 - 2009 (6th term)
| MEP's Name | Political Party | |
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| Gerard Batten | United Kingdom Independence Party | |
| John Bowis | Conservative Party | |
| Robert Evans | Labour Party | |
| Mary Honeyball | Labour Party | |
| Syed Kamall (Appointed in May 2005 to replace Theresa Villiers) | Conservative Party (2005 onwards) | |
| Jean Lambert | Green Party | |
| Sarah Ludford | Liberal Democrat Party | |
| Claude Moraes | Labour Party | |
| Charles Tannock | Conservative Party | |
| Theresa Villiers (Elected to Chipping Barnet in the 2005 UK general election) | Conservative Party (until 2005) |
2009 - 2014 (7th term)
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: London[6][7] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Charles Tannock, Syed Kamall, Marina Yannakoudakis, J. P. Floru, Warwick Lightfoot, Bob Seeley, Graham Postles, Alison Sproule |
479,037 (159,679) |
27.4 | +0.6 | |
| Labour | Claude Moraes, Mary Honeyball, Anne Fairweather, Kevin McGrath, Emma Jones, Raj Jethwa, Nilgun Canver |
372,590 (186,295) |
21.3 | -3.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Sarah Ludford, Jonathan Fryer, Dinti Batstone, Christopher Le Breton, John Pindar, Simon James, Caroline Persson, Ben Jones |
240,156 | 13.7 | -1.6 | |
| Green | Jean Lambert, Ute Michel, Shahrar Ali, Joseph Healy, Miranda Dunn, Shasha Khan, George Graham, Priya Shah |
190,589 | 10.9 | +2.5 | |
| UKIP | Gerard Batten, Ralph Atkinson, Michael Zuckerman, Tim Worstall, Sunita Webb, Victor Webb, Strachan McDonald, Geoff Howard, Marcus Watney |
188,440 | 10.8 | -1.6 | |
| BNP | Bob Bailey, Michael Barnbrook, Dennis Pearce, Julian Leppert, Roberta Woods, Chris Forster, John Clarke, John Evans | 86,420 | 4.9 | +0.9 | |
| Christian Party | George Hargreaves, Susan May, Paula Warren, Stephen Hammond, Mary Boyle, Suzanne Fernandez, Peter Ljubisic, David Williams | 51,336 | 2.9 | N/A | |
| Independent | Jan Jananayagam[8] | 50,014 | 2.9 | N/A | |
| English Democrats | Roger Cooper, Graham Dare, Satvinder Singh Chagger, Graham Wood, Arvind Tailor, Elaine Cheeseman, David Stevens, Janus Polenceus | 24,477 | 1.4 | +0.6 | |
| NO2EU | Bob Crow, John Hendry, Mary Davis, Kevin Nolan, Syed Islam, Onay Kasab, John Rowe, Nick Wrack | 17,758 | 1.0 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Arthur Scargill, Amanda Rose, Colin Muir, Linda Muir, Ronald Sinclair, Margaret Sharkey, Alan Jones, Carole Whatham | 15,306 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Libertas | Max Burt, Victoria Wood, Susannah Prins, Peter Lloyd, Herbert Crossman, Dominique Field | 8,444 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Jury Team | Reza Tabrisi, Evan Milner, Lucy O'Sullivan-McCormick, Afshin Payravi, Thomas Mulcahy, Sherif Malak, David Littlejohn, Gregory Williams | 7,284 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Independent | Steven Cheung | 4,918 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Socialist (GB) | Danny Lambert, Tristan Miller, Janet Carter, Bill Martin, Adam Buick, Simon Wigley, Frederick Allen, Patricia Deutz | 4,050 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Yes2Europe | Brendan Patrick | 3,384 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Independent | Sohale Rahman[9] | 3,248 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Independent | Gene Alcantara[10] | 1,972 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Independent | Haroon Saad | 1,603 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 1,751,026 | 33.3 | -4.0 | ||
| European Election 2004: London[11] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Theresa Villiers, John Bowis, Charles Tannock Syed Kamall, Richard Balfe, Ian Twinn, Roseanne Serrelli, Heather Leigh Mendelsohn, Ashok Kumaar |
504,941 (168,313.67) |
26.8 | −5.9 | |
| Labour | Claude Moraes, Mary Honeyball, Robert Evans Anita Pollack, Hugh Malyan, Steph Elsy, Munir Malik, Jane Briginshaw, Jo Ejiofor |
466,584 (155,528) |
24.8 | −10.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Sarah Ludford, Jonathan Fryer, John Stevens, Dinti Wakefield, Ian McDonald, Kishwer Falkner, Nigel Bakhai, Keith Moffitt, Sandra Lawman | 288,790 | 15.3 | +3.7 | |
| UKIP | Gerard Batten Damian Hockney, Christopher Pratt, John De Roeck, Anthony Scholefield, Janice Cronin, Kathleen Garner, Harun Khan, Ralph Atkinson |
232,633 | 12.3 | +6.9 | |
| Green | Jean Lambert Paul Ingram, Judy Maciejowska, Timothy Turner, Christopher Cotton, Douglas Earl, Shahrar Ali, Peter Budge, Joseph Healy |
158,986 | 8.4 | +0.8 | |
| Respect | George Galloway, Unjum Mirza, Elaine Graham-Leigh, Paul Foot, Rita Carter, John Mulrenan, Victoria Brittain, Gary McFarlane, Ken Loach | 91,175 | 4.8 | N/A | |
| BNP | Christopher Roberts, Tess Culnane, Lee Barnes, James Seadon, John Bowles, Jay Lee, John Evans, Alan Bailey, Lawrence Rustem | 76,152 | 4.0 | +2.5 | |
| Christian Peoples | Michael Elmer, Genevieve Hibbs, Peter Flower, Keith McLeod, Debra Smith-Gorick, Douglas Gibbons, Roger Glencross, Glenton Downs | 45,038 | 2.4 | N/A | |
| English Democrats | Robin Tilbrook, Timothy Bragg, Terence Brown, Robert Howells, Alan Sutton, Robert Poulton | 15,945 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| People's Party for Better Government | Christopher Prior | 5,205 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 1,885,449 | 37.3 | +14.2 | ||
| European Election 1999: London[12] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Pauline Green, Claude Moraes, Robert Evans, Richard Balfe, Carole Tongue, Shaun Spiers, Mary Honeyball, Munir Malik, Pam Wharfe, Michael Elliott | 399,466 (99,866.5) | 35.0 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Theresa Villiers, Charles Tannock, Nicholas Bethell, John Bowis, Ian Twinn, Andrew Popat, Andrew Boff, Bene't Steinberg, John Flack, Angela Harvey | 372,989 (93,247.25) | 32.7 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrat | Sarah Ludford, Hugh Dykes, Susan Kramer, Jonathan Fryer, Hilary Leighter, Nick Pinfield, Sue Doughty, Andrew Wiseman, Nikki Thomson, Peter Facey | 133,058 | 11.7 | N/A | |
| Green | Jean Lambert, Niki Kortvelyessy, Jenny Jones, Shane Collins, John William Bradley, Vicky Olliver, Hils Jago, Jayne Forbes, Dean Walton, Michael Stimson | 87,545 | 7.7 | N/A | |
| UKIP | Craig Mackinlay, Damian Hockney, Josie O'Ware, Gerald Roberts, Chris Pratt, Jim Carver, Michael Harvey, Tony Scholefield, John de Roeck, Mark Lester | 61,741 | 5.4 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Arthur Scargill, Novjot Brar, Hardy Singh Dhillon, Amanda Rose, John Hendy, Harpal Brar, Eloisa Rule, Robert Siggins, John Hayball, Joe Marino | 19,632 | 1.7 | N/A | |
| BNP | John Tyndall, Kenneth Francis, Paul Borg, Michael Davidson, Valerie Tyndall, Jean Griffin, Ruth Tagg, Michael Carey, Christopher Jury, Mark Tointan | 17,960 | 1.6 | N/A | |
| Liberal | Maria Williamson, Mark Austin, Robin Almond, Rif Winfield, Anne Bradshaw, Roger Jenking, Gerald Williams, Donald Bruce, Peter White, Jennifer Roach | 16,951 | 1.5 | N/A | |
| Pro-Euro Conservative | Marcelle d'Argy Smith, Harriet Crawley, Catherine Moorhouse, Richard Wassell, Anthony Meyer, Martin Sexton, Mary-Anne Widdicombe, Stephen Haseler, Joanne Ezekiel, Daniel Trup | 16,383 | 1.4 | N/A | |
| Architect, Human Rights Peace in Europe | George Hajifanis | 4,851 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Anti-Value Added Tax | Erol Basarik | 2,596 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Humanist Party | Jon Swinden, Judith Earley, Tony Robinson, Robert Harris, Simon Peters, Simon Domingo, Joanna Spearman, Anna Louise Swinden, Mammo Muchie, Jennifer Wright | 2,586 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| The Hemp Coalition | Gordon Webster | 2,358 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | Geoffrey Clements, Richard Johnson, Anthony Hardy, Susan Hamza, Gerard Valente, Judith Thomas, Alexander Hankey, Philomena Quick, Jonathan Hinde, Charles Hueston | 2,263 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Weekly Worker | Anne Murphy, Stanley Kelsey, Marcus Larsen, Peter Mansen, Phillip Kent, Jim Gilbert, Andrew Hanna | 846 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 1,141,225 | 23.1 | N/A | ||
References
- ^ http://www.europarl.org.uk/section/european-elections/candidates
- ^ http://www.yougov.co.uk/extranets/ygarchives/content/pdf/TPA%20results%2009%2001%2008.pdf
- ^ http://www.yougov.co.uk/archives/pdf/DT-results-MAY.pdf
- ^ http://www.yougov.co.uk/archives/pdf/DT-results_27-29MAY.pdf
- ^ excluding non-voters and "don't know" responses
- ^ http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5A43D733-BDFD-4E89-BFF7-E3EA724CD9EB/0/StatementOfPersonsNominated.pdf
- ^ European Elections 2009: London
- ^ http://votejan4mep.org/policies.php
- ^ http://www.sohale.co.uk
- ^ http://genealcantara.com
- ^ "2004 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. http://www.europarl.org.uk/section/2004/2004-election-candidates. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- ^ "1999 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. http://www.europarl.org.uk/section/1999/1999-election-candidates. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
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