South West England is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 7 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
Boundaries
The constituency consists of the South West England region of the United Kingdom and with effect from the 2004 European election has also included Gibraltar.
Members of the European Parliament
1999 - 2004
- Giles Chichester, Conservative
- Glyn Ford, Labour
- Michael Holmes, UKIP
- Caroline Jackson, Conservative
- Alexandar Macmillan, Conservative
- Neil Parish, Conservative
- Graham Watson, Liberal Democrat
Changes
Michael Holmes resigned and was replaced by Graham Booth in 2002.
2004 - present
- Graham Booth, UKIP
- Giles Chichester, Conservative
- Glyn Ford, Labour
- Caroline Jackson, Conservative
- Roger Knapman, UKIP
- Neil Parish, Conservative
- Graham Watson, Liberal Democrat
Election results
| European election 2004: South West England | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Elected | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Neil Parish Caroline Jackson Giles Chichester |
457,371 (152,457) | 31.6 | −10.1 | |
| UK Independence | Graham Booth Roger Knapman |
326,684 (163,342) | 22.6 | +12.0 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Graham Watson | 265,619 | 18.3 | +1.8 | |
| Labour | Glyn Ford | 209,908 | 14.5 | −3.5 | |
| Green | None | 103,821 | 7.2 | −1.1 | |
| British National Party | None | 43,653 | 3.0 | +2.1 | |
| Countryside | None | 30,824 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Respect | None | 10,437 | 2.7 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 1,453,625 | 37.8 | +10.2 | ||
| European election 1999: South West England | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Elected | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Caroline Jackson Giles Chichester Alexander Macmillan Neil Parish |
434,645 (108,661.25) | 41.7 | N/A | |
| Labour | Glyn Ford | 188,362 | 18.1 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrat | Graham Watson | 171,498 | 16.5 | N/A | |
| UK Independence | Michael Holmes | 111,012 | 10.6 | N/A | |
| Green | None | 86,630 | 8.3 | N/A | |
| Liberal | None | 21,645 | 2.1 | N/A | |
| Pro-Euro Conservative | None | 11,134 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| British National Party | None | 9,752 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | None | 5,741 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | None | 1,968 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 1,042,387 | 27.6 | N/A | ||
| Constituencies in South West England | |
|---|---|
| Conservative |
Bournemouth East • Bournemouth West • Bridgwater • Christchurch • Cotswold • Devizes • East Devon • Forest of Dean • North Dorset • North Wiltshire • Poole • Salisbury • South West Devon • Tewkesbury • Tiverton and Honiton • Torridge and West Devon • Totnes • Wells • West Dorset • Westbury • Weston-super-Mare • Woodspring |
| Liberal Democrat | |
| Labour | |
| South West England European constituency |
Conservative (3) • UKIP (2) • Liberal Democrats (1) • Labour (1) |
| European Parliamentary constituencies | |
|---|---|
| Belgium | Dutch-speaking · French-speaking · German-speaking |
| France | East · Île-de-France · Massif Central · North-West · Overseas Territories · South-East · South-West · West |
| Ireland | Dublin · East · North-West · South |
| Italy | Central · Islands · North-East · North-West · Southern |
| United Kingdom | East Midlands ·
East of England · London · North East
England · Northern Ireland ·
North West England · Scotland · South East England · South West England · Wales · West Midlands · Yorkshire and the Humber |
| National | Austria · Bulgaria · Cyprus · Czech Republic · Denmark · Estonia · Finland · Germany · Greece · Hungary · Latvia · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Malta · Netherlands · Poland · Portugal · Romania · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden |
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