| North East England European Parliament constituency |
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| Created | 1999 |
| MEP(s) | 4 (1999 - 2004) 3 (2004 - present) |
| Member State | United Kingdom |
| Source(s) | [1][2] |
North East England is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 3 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
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Boundaries
The constituency corresponds to the North East England region of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and parts of North Yorkshire.
History
The constituency was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Durham, Northumbria, Tyne and Wear, and parts of Cleveland and Richmond.
Members of the European Parliament
| Year | MEP 1 | Party 1 | MEP 2 | Party 2 | MEP 3 | Party 3 | MEP 4 | Party 4 | ||||
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| 1999 | Alan Donnelly | Labour | Martin Callanan | Conservative | Stephen Hughes | Labour | Mo O'Toole | Labour | ||||
| 1999 | Stephen Hughes | Labour | Martin Callanan | Conservative | Mo O'Toole | Labour | Gordon Adam | Labour | ||||
| 2004 | Stephen Hughes | Labour | Martin Callanan | Conservative | Fiona Hall | Liberal Democrat | Reduced to three seats | |||||
| 2009 | Stephen Hughes | Labour | Martin Callanan | Conservative | Fiona Hall | Liberal Democrat | ||||||
Election results
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Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.
| European Election 2009: North East England[1][2] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Stephen Hughes Fay Tinnon, Nick Wallis[3] |
147,338 | 25.0 | −9.1 | |
| Conservative | Martin Callanan Barbara Musgrave, Richard Bell[4] |
116,911 | 19.8 | +1.2 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Fiona Hall Chris Foote-Wood, Neil Bradbury[5] |
103,644 | 17.6 | −0.2 | |
| UK Independence | Gordon Parkin, Sandra Allison, John Tennant[6] | 90,700 | 15.4 | +3.2 | |
| British National | Adam Walker, Peter Mailer, Ken Booth[7] | 52,700 | 8.9 | +2.5 | |
| Green | Shirley Ford, Iris Ryder, Nic Best[8] | 34,081 | 5.8 | +1.0 | |
| English Democrats | Frank Roseman, Allan White, Garham Robinson | 13,007 | 2.2 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Michael York, John Taylor, James Dodsworth | 10,238 | 1.7 | N/A | |
| NO2EU | Martin Levy, Hannah Walter, Peter Pinkney | 8,066 | 1.4 | N/A | |
| Christian Party | Don Botham, Daniel Parker, Coral Thompson | 7,263 | 1.2 | N/A | |
| Libertas | Ken Rollings, Alasdair Macleod, William Tremlett | 3,010 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Jury Team | Ahmed Khan, Jackie Riley[9] | 2,904 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 589,862 | 30.4 | −10.4 | ||
| European Election 2004: North East England[10] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Stephen Hughes Mo O'Toole, Joanne Thompson |
266,057 | 34.1 | −8.1 | |
| Conservative | Martin Callanan Jeremy Middleton, Amanda Vigar |
144,969 | 18.6 | −8.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Fiona Hall Chris Wood, Gregory Stone |
138,791 | 17.8 | +4.3 | |
| UK Independence | Piers Merchant, Charlotte Bull, Val Cowell | 94,887 | 12.2 | +3.3 | |
| British National | Alan Patterson, Andrew Harris, Jenny Agnew[11] | 50,249 | 6.4 | +5.5 | |
| Independent | Neil Herron | 39,658 | 5.1 | N/A | |
| Green | Pam Woolner, Nic Best, Judith Brennan | 37,247 | 4.8 | +0.1 | |
| Respect | Yvonne Ridley, Yunus Bakhsh, David Stewart | 8,633 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 780,491 | 40.8 | +21.3 | ||
| European Election 1999: North East England[12] | |||||
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| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Alan Donnelly, Stephen Hughes, Mo O'Toole Gordon Adam |
162,573 (54,191) |
42.2 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Martin Callanan Aidan Ruff, Brendan Murphy, Neil Macgregor |
105,573 | 27.4 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrat | Chris Foote Wood, Fiona Hall, Peter Maughan, Jane Harvey | 52,070 | 13.5 | N/A | |
| UK Independence | Rodney Atkinson, William Brown, Martin Rouse, Graeme Oswald | 34,063 | 8.8 | N/A | |
| Green | Nicolas Best, Ruth Whiteside, Bridget Speight, Michael Greveson | 18,184 | 4.7 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Brian Gibson, Gordon Potts, James Fitzpatrick, Kenneth Hall | 4,511 | 1.2 | N/A | |
| British National | Alan Gould, John Bowles, Iain Wilson, Colin Smith[13] | 3,505 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Pro-Euro Conservative | Dominic Tilley, Marie Adams, Desmond Harney, John Meredith | 2,926 | 0.8 | N/A | |
| Socialist (GB) | John Bisset, Steven Colborn, Stephen Davison, Andrew Pitts | 1,510 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | Paul Kember, Richard Buswell, Richard Keyton, Christopher Adamson | 826 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 385,741 | 19.5 | N/A | ||
References
- ^ Sunderland City Council
- ^ "2009 election results". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/elections/euro/09/html/ukregion_33.stm. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
- ^ Labour Party
- ^ Conservative Party
- ^ Liberal Democrats
- ^ UK Independence Party
- ^ British National Party
- ^ Green Party of England and Wales
- ^ Jury Team
- ^ "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/20040603103752/www.bnp.org.uk/freedom/regions/necand.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/advisory/colin_smith.stm
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