South East England (European Parliament constituency)

South East England European Parliament constituency
Location amongst the 2007 constituencies
Shown within England
Created	1999
MEP(s)	10 (2004–present) 11 (1999–2004)
Member State	United Kingdom
Source(s)	[1][2]

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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.

Boundaries

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

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

MEPs for South East England, 1999 onwards
Election		1999 (5th parliament)		2004 (6th parliament)				2009 (7th parliament)
MEP Party		Chris Huhne Liberal Democrat				Sharon Bowles Liberal Democrat
MEP Party		Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne Liberal Democrat						Catherine Bearder Liberal Democrat
MEP Party		Caroline Lucas Green								Keith Taylor Green
MEP Party		Nirj Deva Conservative
MEP Party		James Elles Conservative
MEP Party		Daniel Hannan Conservative
MEP Party		James Provan Conservative		Richard Ashworth Conservative
MEP Party		Roy Perry Conservative		Ashley Mote UKIP				Marta Andreasen UKIP (2009–13) Conservative (2013–)
MEP Party		Nigel Farage UKIP
MEP Party		Peter Skinner Labour
MEP Party		Mark Watts Labour	Seat abolished

Key to European parties (UK)[3]					(v.d.e)
British party		Seats/73	EP group		Seats/754
	Conservative	26		Conservatives & Reformists	54
	Labour	13		Socialists & Democrats	189
	Liberal Democrat	12		Liberals & Democrats	85
	UKIP1	10		Freedom & Democracy	35
		1		None
	Green	2		Greens & Free Alliance	59
	Scottish National	2
	Plaid Cymru	1
	Sinn Féin	1		EUL-NGL	34
	UUP	1		Conservatives & Reformists	54
	British National	1		None
	Democratic Unionist	1
	British Democratic	1
	We Demand a Referendum	1

¹ UKIP have 11 MEPs in total, but only 10 are in the Freedom & Democracy group, with Trevor Colman as a Non-Inscrit.

Election results

European Parliament election, 2009 (United Kingdom) Elected candidates are shown in bold. Brackets indicate the number of votes per seat won.

European Election 2009: South East England
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, Anthony 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 Democrats	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 Ave!	Jean-Louis Pascal	5,450	0.2	N/A
Turnout			2,334,858	37.5	+1.0

European Election 2004: South East England
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	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 Democrats	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
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Provan, Roy Perry, Daniel Hannan, James Elles, Nirj Deva Bryony 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	1857	0.1	N/A
	Making a Profit in Europe	John Goss	1400	0.1	N/A
Turnout			1,490,069	24.7	N/A