Wales (European Parliament constituency)

Wales European Parliament constituency

Location amongst the 2007 constituencies

Shown in the United Kingdom
Created	1999
MEP(s)	5 (1999–2004) 4 (2004 – present)
Member State	United Kingdom
Source(s)	[1][2]

Wales is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 4 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.^[1]

Boundaries [edit]

The constituency corresponds to the boundaries of Wales, one of the four countries of the United Kingdom.^[2]^[3]

MEPs for former Welsh constituencies, 1979–1999^[4]
Election		1979 – 1984	1984 – 1989	1989 – 1994		1994 – 1999
North Wales		Beata Brookes Conservative		Joe Wilson Labour
Mid and West Wales		Ann Clwyd Labour	David Morris Labour			Eluned Morgan Labour
South East Wales (1979–1984) South Wales East (1984–1999)		Allan Rogers Labour	Llew Smith Labour			Glenys Kinnock Labour
South Wales		Win Griffiths Labour	Wayne David Labour		Constituency abolished
South Wales Central	Constituency not established					Wayne David Labour
South Wales West	Constituency not established					David Morris Labour

MEPs for Wales, 1999 onwards
Election	1999 (5th parliament)		2004 (6th parliament)	2009 (7th parliament)
MEP Party		Jonathan Evans Conservative			Kay Swinburne Conservative
MEP Party		Eluned Morgan Labour			John Bufton UKIP
MEP Party		Glenys Kinnock Labour			Derek Vaughan Labour
MEP Party		Jill Evans Plaid Cymru
MEP Party		Eurig Wyn Plaid Cymru	Seat abolished

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

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

European Election 2009: Wales^[5]^[6]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kay Swinburne Evan Price, Emma Greenow, David Chipp	145,193	21.2	+1.8
	Labour	Derek Vaughan Lisa Stevens, Rachel Maycock, Leighton Veale	138,852	20.3	-12.2
	Plaid Cymru	Jill Evans Eurig Wyn, Ioan Bellin, Natasha Asghar	126,702	18.5	+1.1
	UKIP	John Bufton David Bevan, Kevin Mahoney, David Rowlands	87,585	12.8	+2.3
	Liberal Democrat	Alan Butt Phillip, Kevin O'Connor, Nick Tregoning, Jackie Radford	73,082	10.7	+0.2
	Green	Jake Griffiths, Kay Roney, Ann Were, John Matthews	38,160	5.6	+2.0
	BNP	Ennys Hughes, Laurence Read, Clive Bennett, Kevin Edwards	37,114	5.4	+2.5
	Christian	Jeffrey Green, David Griffiths, Alun Owen, John Harrold	13,037	1.9	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Robert English, Richard Booth, Liz Screen, Judith Sambrook	12,402	1.8	N/A
	NO2EU	Robert Griffiths, Rob Williams, Laura Picand, Trevor Jones	8,600	1.3	N/A
	Jury Team	Paul Sabanskis, James Eustace, Neil Morgan, Steven Partridge	3,793	0.6	N/A
Turnout			684,520	30.4	-11.0

European Election 2004: Wales^[7]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Glenys Kinnock, Eluned Morgan Gareth Williams, Gwennan Jeremiah	297,810 (148,905)	32.5	+0.6
	Conservative	Jonathan Evans Owen Williams, Felicity Elphick, Albert Fox	177,771	19.4	−3.3
	Plaid Cymru	Jill Evans Jon Blackwood, Eilian Williams, Gwenllian Lansdowne	159,888	17.4	−12.2
	UKIP	David Rowlands, Clive Easton, Elizabeth Phillips, Timothy Jenkins	96,677	10.5	+7.4
	Liberal Democrat	David John Williams, Alison Goldsworthy, Nicholas Tregoning, Nilmini Priyanga de Silva	96,116	10.5	+2.3
	Green	Martyn Shrewsbury, Molly Scott Cato, David Bradney, Dorienne Robinson	32,761	3.6	+1.0
	BNP	John Walker, Pauline Gregory, James Roberts, Mark Stringfellow^[8]	27,135	3.0	N/A
	Forward Wales	Ron Davies, Wendy Paintsil, Janet Williams, Graham Jones	17,280	1.9	N/A
	Christian Democratic Party	Catherine Smith, Christine West, Joseph Biddulph, Robert Evans	6,821	0.7	N/A
	Respect	Helen Griffin, Huw Williams, Raja Gul Raiz, Taran O'Sullivan	5,427	0.6	N/A
Turnout			917,686	41.4	+12.4

European Election 1999: Wales^[9]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Glenys Kinnock, Eluned Morgan Joe Wilson, Gareth Williams, Jane Hutt	199,690 (99,845)	31.9	N/A
	Plaid Cymru	Jill Evans, Eurig Wyn Marc Phillips, Susanna Perkins, Owain Llywelyn	185,235 (92,617.5)	29.6	N/A
	Conservative	Jonathan Evans Chris Butler, Owen John Williams, Robert Buckland, Edmund Hayward	142,631	22.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Roger Roberts, Peter Price, Alistair Cameron, Juliana Hughes, John Dixon	51,283	8.2	N/A
	UKIP	Dai Rees, Niall Warry, Idris Richard Francis, Alan Barham, David Lloyd	19,702	3.1	N/A
	Green	Molly Scott Cato, Klaus Armstrong-Braun, Sue Walker, Rachel Kalela, John Matthews	16,146	2.6	N/A
	Pro-Euro Conservative	William Powell, Jennifer Harris, Antonio Fernandes-Vidal, Alan Morris, Christopher Hodgkinson	5,834	0.9	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Elizabeth Screen, Darren Hickery, Stephen Bell, Miriam Bowen, George Tafarides	4,283	0.7	N/A
	Natural Law	David Hughes, Brian Francis, Helen Evans, Andrea Jarman, John Ashforth	1,621	0.3	N/A
Turnout			626,425	29.0	N/A

^ "Q&A: European election in Wales". BBC News, Wales politics. BBC. 18 May 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
^ "Frequently Asked Questions; Is Wales a country or a principality?". wales.com. Welsh Government. 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2013. "Wales is not a Principality. Although we are joined with England by land, and we are part of Great Britain, Wales is a country in its own right."
^ "Results of 2009 European elections in the UK". European Parliament Information Office in the United Kingdom. European Parliament. 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
^ United Kingdom European Parliamentary Election results 1979–99: Wales
^ Electoral Office of Wales
^ European Election 2009: Wales
^ "2004 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
^ walescand
^ "1999 Election candidates". UK Office of the European Parliament. Retrieved 2009-06-04.