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South East England
European Parliament constituency

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Member stateUnited Kingdom
Created1999
MEPs10 (2004–present)
11 (1999–2004)
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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.




Contents





  • 1 Boundaries


  • 2 History


  • 3 Returned members


  • 4 Election results


  • 5 References




Boundaries[edit]


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.



History[edit]


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.



Returned members[edit]




















































































MEPs for South East England, 1999 onwards
Election


1999 (5th parliament)


2004 (6th parliament)


2009 (7th parliament)


2014 (8th parliament)







MEP
Party


Nirj Deva
Conservative

MEP
Party


Daniel Hannan
Conservative

MEP
Party


James Provan
Conservative


Richard Ashworth
Conservative (2014–2017)
Independent (2017– )

MEP
Party


James Elles
Conservative


Janice Atkinson
UKIP (2014–2015)
Independent (2015– )

MEP
Party


Roy Perry
Conservative


Ashley Mote
UKIP (2004)
Independent (2004–09)


Marta Andreasen
UKIP (2009–13)
Conservative (2013–2014)


Ray Finch
UKIP

MEP
Party


Nigel Farage
UKIP
Independent (2018–2019)
Brexit Party (2019– )


MEP
Party


Chris Huhne[1]
Liberal Democrats


Sharon Bowles[1]
Liberal Democrats


Diane James
UKIP (2014–2016)
Independent (2016–2019)[2]
Brexit Party (2019– )


MEP
Party


Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
Liberal Democrats


Catherine Bearder
Liberal Democrats

MEP
Party


Caroline Lucas[3]
Green


Keith Taylor[3]
Green

MEP
Party


Peter Skinner
Labour


Anneliese Dodds[4]
Labour


John Howarth
Labour

MEP
Party


Mark Watts
Labour
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Key to political groups of the European Parliament (UK)[5]



Labour Party
19
 

Socialists and Democrats
185


Conservative Party
18


European Conservatives and Reformists
74


Ulster Unionist Party

1


Brexit Party
9


Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy
42


UK Independence Party
3


Social Democratic Party

1


Independent
4


Green Party of England and Wales
3


Greens–European Free Alliance
52


Scottish National Party
2


Plaid Cymru

1


UK Independence Party
3
 

Europe of Nations and Freedom
37


Independent

1


Independent
2
 

European People's Party
218


Liberal Democrats

1
 

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
68


Sinn Féin

1
 

European United Left–Nordic Green Left
52


Democratic Unionist Party

1


Non-Inscrits
21


UK Independence Party

1


Independent

1

vacant
1
 
vacant
1
Total
73
Total
750


Election results[edit]


Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.






































































































European Election 2014: South East England[6] (results)
List
Candidates
Votes
%
±


UKIP

Nigel Farage, Janice Atkinson, Diane James, Ray Finch
Donna Edmunds, Patricia Culligan, Nigel Jones, Alan Stevens, Simon Strutt, Barry Cooper[7][8]
751,439
(187,860)
32.14
+13.29


Conservative

Daniel Hannan, Nirj Deva, Richard Ashworth
Marta Andreasen, Richard Robinson, Graham Knight, Julie Marson, George Jeffrey, Rory Love, Adrian Pepper[8]
723,571
(241,190)
30.95
-3.84


Labour

Anneliese Dodds
John Howarth, Emily Westley, James Swindlehurst, Farah Nazeer, James Watkins, Maggie Hughes, Chris Clark, Karen Landles, Tracey Hill[8]
342,775
14.66
+6.41


Green

Keith Taylor,
Alexandra Phillips, Derek Wall, Jason Kitcat, Miriam Kennet, Beverley Golden, Jonathan Essex, Jonathan Kent, Stuart Jeffrey, Ray Cunningham[8]
211,706
9.05
-2.57


Liberal Democrat

Catherine Bearder
Antony Hook, Dinti Batstone, Giles Goodall, Ian Bearder, Allis Moss, Steve Sollitt, Bruce Tennent, John Vincent, Alan Bullion[8]
187,876
8.04
-6.11


Independence from Europe

Laurence Stassen, Joyce Nattress, Paul Godfrey, Alan Sheath, Ken Holton, Mark Henry, Keith Vernon, Michaelina Argy, Seana Connolly, Dorothy Sheath[8]
45,199
1.93
N/A


English Democrat

Steve Uncles, Julia Gasper, Amanda Hopwood, Simone Clark, Steve Clegg, Milly Uncles, Mike Russell, Mike Tibby, Doreen Dye, William James[8]
17,771
0.76
-1.49


BNP

John Robinson, Gavin Miller, Eric Elliot, John Moore, Alwyn Deacon, Anthony Banner, Brenda Waterhouse, Mark Jones, Jack Renshaw, Yvonne Deacon[8]
16,909
0.72
-3.64


Christian Peoples

Norman Burnett, Suzanne Fernandes, Flora Amar, Rev Anthony, Dorothy Mugara, Kayode Shedowo, Bridget Oyekan, Nnenna St Luce, Chukka Roja[8]
14,893
0.64
-0.89


Peace

John Morris, Jim Duggan, Julie Roxburgh, Jeff Bolam, Geoff Pay, David Brown, Keith Scott, Imdad Hussain, Minim Chowdhury, Charles Wilkinson[8]
10,130
0.43
+0.02


Socialist (GB)

Dave Chesham, Rob Cox, Les Courtney, Sean Deegan, Max Hess, Claudia Hogg-Blake, Danny Lambert, Andy Matthews, Howard Pilott, Mike Young[8]
5,454
0.23
N/A


Roman Party

Jean-Louis Pascual[8]
2,997
0.13
-0.11

YOURvoice

Julian James, Rachel Ling, Fulvia James[9][8]
2.932
N/A
N/A


Liberty GB

Paul Weston, Enza Ferreri, Jack Buckby[8]
2,494
0.13
N/A

Harmony Party

Tony Leach, Raymond Crick[8]
1,904
0.08
N/A

Turnout
2,348,168
36.5%
-1%




































































































European Election 2009: South East England[10][11]
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


UKIP

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, Antony 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


BNP

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 Democrat

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

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


Libertas

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


UK First

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

Jean-Louis Pascal
5,450
0.2

N/A

Turnout
2,334,858
37.5
+1.0
























































































European Election 2004: South East England[12][13]
List
Candidates
Votes
%
±


Conservative

Daniel Hannan, Nirj Deva, James Elles, Richard Ashworth
Roy Perry, Therese Coffey, David Logan, Ferris Cowper, Richard Robinson
776,370
(194,092.5)
35.2
−9.2


UKIP

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, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
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


BNP

Brian Galloway, Julie Russell, Timothy Rait, Peter Lane, Roger Robertson, Julian Crewe, Adam Champneys, Ian Johnson, Dennis Whiting, Vernon Atkinson[14]
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 Democrat

Steven Uncles, Robert Sulley, Courtney Williams, Richard Sutton, Jacqueline Brookman, David Uncles, 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[15]
List
Candidates
Votes
%
±


Conservative

James Provan, Roy Perry, Daniel Hannan, James Elles, Nirj Deva
Bryony, Baroness 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 Snelgrove, Parmjit Dhanda, Ann Davison, Tamara Flanagan, John Howarth, Liz Clements, Alison Chapman, Sarah McCarthy-Fry
292,146
(146,073)
19.6

N/A


Liberal Democrat

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, 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


UKIP

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


BNP

Michael Easter, Dennis Whiting, 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
1,857
0.1

N/A

Making a Profit in Europe

John Goss
1,400
0.1

N/A

Turnout
1,490,069
24.7

N/A


References[edit]




  1. ^ ab Chris Huhne stood down when he was elected to the Eastleigh seat in the House of Commons in the 5 May 2005 UK general election. Sharon Bowles, as second on the Liberal Democrat list, took over from that day.


  2. ^ "Former leader Diane James quits UKIP". BBC. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2018..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  3. ^ ab Caroline Lucas won the Brighton Pavilion seat in the House of Commons in the 6 May 2010 UK general election so stood down as an MEP. She was succeeded by Keith Taylor, second on the Green's 2009 party list.


  4. ^ Anneliese Dodds stood down when she was elected to the Oxford East seat in the House of Commons in the 8 June 2017 UK general election. John Howarth, as second on the Labour list, took over from 30 June 2017.


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  9. ^ "YOURvoice ...a better democracy". yourvoiceparty.org.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2018.


  10. ^ "South East Region – Statement of Parties and Individual Candidates Nominated and Notice of Poll" (PDF). Government of the United Kingdom. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2018.


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